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"A science fiction writer of the Fifties".(Poem)

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| April 01, 2006 | Leithauser, Brad | COPYRIGHT 2006 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
"A science fiction writer of the Fifties" 
 
   I. When the Smoke Rings Sail 
 
   Although it scarcely matters where he is, 
   He's in Urbana, Illinois, tonight, 
   As he is on most nights; it's where he lives. 
   Move to New York, they're always telling him. 
   Or San Francisco, Lit., Washington-As 
   if these places were appreciably 
   Nearer, somehow, to what he writes about. 
   Even his friends, they don't grasp that all places 
   Are roughly the same distance when your subject 
   Is Time itself, the pure future... 
   Besides, he's drawn to these Midwestern skies, 
   Clean and enormous, stars all the way down 
   To the horizon, where the very lowest 
   Float at ...
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