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The City of Bones<br />
1 avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy<br />
75014 Paris<br />
Your skyscrapers Your carapaces<br />
Your crowded thoroughfares<br />
Your alleys Your elegant houses<br />
Your civic ceremonies<br />
Your highways and byways<br />
Your distances Your tenements<br />
Your dauntless architectural sleep<br />
Your anonymity<br />
Your peace Your curiousness<br />
Your intersecting femurs<br />
Your eyeless eyes<br />
Your ramshackle musters<br />
Your knucklebones Your teeth<br />
Your fascination to gawkers<br />
Your privacy despite them<br />
Your hands Your mandibles<br />
Your many white towers<br />
Your incognito walls Your paths<br />
Your friendly lonely throng<br />
Your nondescript beloved multitude<br />
Blood-Heaven<br />
This late grace,<br />
the sun in a grey<br />
bath, the kiss of light—<br />
and the goose with<br />
a pearl in its beak<br />
walking into the city<br />
on hot, hushed roads.<br />
The slaughter will take<br />
days: it will be<br />
deemed exquisite.<br />
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