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Why do I write today?
The beauty of / the terrible faces / of our nonentities / stirs me to it: / colored women / day workers -- / old and experienced -- / returning home at dusk / in cast off clothing / faces like / old Florentine oak.
Also / the set pieces / of your faces stir me -- / leading citizens -- / but not / in the same way.