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October 2008

Volume LII Number 10

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Poetry

This City

Jennifer Compton

This City

I am travelling away from my life, towards my life.

This city knows all my secrets.

And that tram, lit from within, waiting at the end of the line.

This city, which is nowhere else.

Jennifer Compton

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