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For William Shawn from Brendan Gill

from The Weather and the Books by MLR

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I bought an Elizabethan house
That had been built into a cliff
Down in the basement a sharp shelf of rock
Jutting up that shows you proof of it
And sensing your discomfort
I suggest we move upstairs

When, as a child, you watched as your father
Sprang up and leapt out into space
He made it back but you would never be the same
You were covering your face
You're not a friend of nature and
Nature has not been kind to you

Riding elevators
Hailing taxi cabs
Cold cereal at the Algonquin
This city is not so bad

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from The Weather and the Books, released September 24, 2013

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