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Local News<br />
21<br />
A m erican G h e tto<br />
Rachael Smith<br />
Circles of barbed wire line the fence<br />
cars parked along it<br />
passes needed to enter<br />
two guards stand by the gate.<br />
Inside Americans live with<br />
Americans<br />
in small rooms with a phone,<br />
a sink, a fridge.<br />
Cooking pancakes and stir fry<br />
on the edge of the Middle East.<br />
Billy Joel, Spin Doctors, Phish, Abba<br />
shout from the windows<br />
giving tempo to the jackhammers<br />
below.<br />
The English chatter, the Hebrew<br />
babble<br />
never meet.<br />
And the cats run wild. Through<br />
the American Ghetto where<br />
Americans meet Americans<br />
drink with them<br />
study Hebrew with them<br />
in the heart of Jerusalem.
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