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Memory, Love, and Personals


Article # : 10819 

Section : THE ARTS
Issue Date : 7 / 1986  774 Words
Author : Louis Simpson

       With Memory.
       And With Love.

       
        I dressed, put my boots on
        painfully, and wrote myself a pass.
        At the gate the guard gave me a look,
        then he smiled, and I was free
        to be drunk all over Paris.
       
        For years after the war
        I would dream I still hadn't found
        what I was looking for. I'd be walking
        in a street filled with whispers
        looking for a certain door.
       
        It is late. I have to be getting back
        to the hospital. I hear my footsteps
        echoing in darkness and desolation.
       
        *****
       
        Peace, in all your avenues
        new galaxies are shining...
        Chocolats Lindt Montres Kody
        Coryse Salome Parfums
        "Tourism," a sign announces, "in ... (1904 of 3389 Characters)
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