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I guess all I'm saying
is that everybody has--

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as well as all the poetry
that you sort of inherit

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from Baudelaire or
Wordsworth or whoever,

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there is the poetry of
your own actual life.

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And for me, I look at a kind
of lower class, middle class,

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lower middle class,
whatever neighborhood

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with artificial brick in a candy
store and triple-decker houses,

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and it's like Wordsworth
looking at a lake.

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Something then he goes, oh.

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It does-- that it has
some significance.

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"House Hour."

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"House Hour."

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Now the pale honey
of a kitchen light

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burns at an upstairs
window, the sash across.

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Milky daylight moon, sky
scored by phone lines.

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Houses in rows patient as cows.

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Dormers and gables of
an immigrant street

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in a small city, the wind-worn
afternoon shading into night.

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Hundreds of times
before I have felt it

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in some district of shingle and
downspout at just this hour.

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The renter walking home from
the bus carrying a crisp bag.

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Maybe a store visible at
the corner, neon at dusk.

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Macaroni mist on the glass.

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Unwilled, seductive as
music, brief as dusk

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itself, the forgotten mirror
brushed for dozens of years

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by the same gray light, the same
shadows of soffit and beam end,

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a reef of old snow
glowing along the walk.

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If I am hollow, or if I am
heavy with longing, the same--

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the same ponderous
houses of siding,

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fur framing, horsehair
plaster, fired bricks

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in a certain light,
changing nothing,

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but touching those
separate hours of the past

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and now at this one time
of day touching this one,

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last spokes of light
silvering the attic dust.

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