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"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 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, "A science fiction writer of the Fifties".(Poem)