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12 May 2004

·speciman

At eight thirty I open doors And watch my step on these ascending floors, Ascending tables and ascending chairs Yet my heart depairs These costly rooms with woodern walls Polished like mother's pedestals I fear more than phantoms Their serenity to obliterate, Within me,the rooted norms Of my native countrymen,the late, That I go home with an obscure tongue With moderness having sprung

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