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April 21, 2018 By Jordan

The world is old, it was always old,
There’s nothing new in it this afternoon.
The garden could’ve been a padlocked window
Of a pawnshop I was studying
With every item in it dust-covered.

…from “Emily’s Theme,” by Charles Simic, in Walking the Black Cat.

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