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This is the last one
I'm going to read

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about going, wandering
around, because I

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do stay at home a lot.

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It's just that
when I go out, I'm

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so impressed at what I
see that I hurry home

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and I start writing about it.

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This is called
"Wandering Pueblo Woman."

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"Wandering city
streets, making tracks

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with the same feet on
concrete, not Pueblo earth,

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but hard, cold cement with the
rest of the city wanderers.

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Setting a pace, fast, fast,
past Radio City Music Hall,

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the World Trade Center, and the
studios where soap operas are

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taped, past begging bums, and
richly furred, spike heeled,

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fashion plates.

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Mesmerized by an
alluring city beat

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combined so seductively with
the glamour of civilized humans

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on every single street corner.

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Giving into the
sensation of amazement

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that tilts your head
back in disbelief,

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mouth open wide eyes searching
for the sky, the sun that

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should have been there.

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Beyond cement towers,
canyons of glass

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covered walls, each with
stories, hundreds and hundreds

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of stories.

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My friends scolded me, keep
your purse inside your coat.

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Don't look in
anyone's eyes they'll

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think you're confronting them.

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And whatever you do,
just keep moving.

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This Pueblo woman
turned city wanderer,

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storing each second of every
sensation for stories, poems,

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pictures, and forms.

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Later on, later on, when
the city pavement ends,

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my head will reel,
and fall back again,

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mouth agape with
the same amazement.

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With the same
amazement at the sky

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I can see now, even at night.

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Coyotes greet me with cries
from the field by Black Mesa.

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A million stars sparkle
as they welcome home

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their wandering Pueblo woman."

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