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66 O Apollinaire, O Quai d’Orsay, O Luxembourg O Eiffel tower, shepherdess, today your bridges are a bleating flock. O Natural Bridge, today your caves are a moaning flotilla. O water tower, today your strip malls are gaping railroads. O radio tower, take my pulse, today your ladders are rehearsing. O silo, explosive chaff, today your cows are vivid and de-milked. O whale, mammal deluxe, your dogs’ noses are gingerly today. O Paris, morganatic marriage, today your crumbs are equally pigeoned. O Guillaume, it’s more than safe to come out, the pedants are bound together By bands of steel, the labels have fallen from the trees, the streets Are an alphabet of slow vanilla and snapped bliss, And here the lights are red At every intersection for your festive cortège. ...

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