even

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Even Stephan Dedalus couldn't fool poetry with
                                                       his               Aristotelian                ramblings

                            and ineluctable modalities of the possible

    Tristan

                               you didn't fool poetry you were it

                                                    living  its  magic night

          Paris that early year before the penultimate second

                              the births  came again                                           roaring 
                                           berth in the train

                                      heading          West

                                    arriving gangplanked clanging from 
                                                       Switzerland 

            Another father came by that route Zurich 
Paris 
                                     Paris 
                                                          Zurich 
                                                               
  (turning returning leaving )

                                            'the last human city'

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