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Homage to X The red earth, the light diffuse In the flat-leaved limbs of the trees; A cold, perpetual rain As though from a heaving breast; O loved ones, O angels . . . -xThe thing, as always,begins In transit, the water infusion Oily and phosphorescent— The vine is a blue light, The cup is a star. -x In the dream you will see a city, Foreign and repetitious, The plants unspeakablygreen; That is of no concern; your job Is the dust, the belly-relinquishing dust. -x It's the day before yesterday, It's the other side of the sky: The body that bears your number Will not be new, will not be your own And will not remember your name. Prague I Prague-Stmshnitz 16 ...

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