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Wet Bitumen: Paris.(Poem)
WET BITUMEN Paris A classic shot by Atget or Man Ray--Old Woman with Umbrella, tenderly sideon, clutching her purse to her chest past the long pale wall down rue Charlot. Hunched under her portable roof held low, she's vigilant over each short step, but at home to herself snail-snug in the late wet afternoon. And two is company--sole to sole in the pavement's sheen, her counterpart hung by her skinny ankles and sensible shoes is trundled on upside-down through an underworld of skeletal ...
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