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The Green caldron - University Library

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26 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Green</strong> Caldron<br />

Walk<br />

past Mambo City<br />

last month it was Rock and Roll City<br />

warm beer smell comes out the door<br />

the blasting trumpet ; the banging drums<br />

"turn off that damn Krupa" it reminds me<br />

building shade is cooler than<br />

granite reflects me as a shadow<br />

Shadows Do Move<br />

Suzanne Thomas<br />

Rhetoric 101, <strong>The</strong>me 6<br />

do men really wear the shiny black slippers in the window?<br />

I have never seen them<br />

a well is in the sea<br />

what is so special about the Tribune Tower that the spotlights reveal ?<br />

people should walk down fire escapes more often<br />

South Pacific somehow doesn't sound the same as North Pacific<br />

I want to crawl on my stomach across the street, a bug<br />

climb the air<br />

that damn bum keeps pouring sugar in his coffee<br />

why do people meet at Walgreen's?<br />

South Pacific is Cantonese food and North Pacific is war<br />

no one can ever read the writing on convention buttons<br />

are they SPQR's or WCTU's?<br />

NOVELS, TALES AND SKETCHES OF J. M.<br />

4 books for a dollar . . . THE<br />

BARRIE. THE BOOK OF BOSTON. WHITEOAKS OF JALNA .<br />

If everyone agreed not to use neon lights, think of the money that could be saved<br />

whoever goes to see "Peter Pan" besides some dumb kids?<br />

what is it about walking under the El<br />

especially when the sun is shining<br />

. .<br />

always start on the main floor at Marshall Fields ; the floors are less inhabited at the top<br />

Ellington is always at the Blue Note<br />

open the doors ; ascend the 2i2 steps ; I always have to sit on the side facing the drummer<br />

forever they will remember "Skin Deep"<br />

what kind of a man allows his wife to come to the City with him for a convention ?<br />

People are everywhere doing nothing<br />

not going to the show but looking at the billboards<br />

not eating but looking at the food in the windows<br />

not buying but sorting through the cheap watchbands<br />

what is the reason for looking at watchbands when I don't have a watch ?<br />

why does granite reflect me as a shadow ?<br />

because in the City I am a shadow<br />

I can never be anything more than a reflection of black in the granite<br />

the City is the granite<br />

I am the nothing.

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