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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535591" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Harlem Palimpsest - What Is Seen And Overheard At Six A.M., West 142nd Street, August 1984</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">.<br>for Wonsook Kim</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Palimpsest =</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1: writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased<br>2: something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Latin palimpsestus, from Greek palimps&#275; stos scraped again, <br>from palin + ps&#275; n to rub, scrape; akin to Sanskrit ps&#257; ti, babhasti <br>he chews</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Oye! Garcia Lorca who chews still<br>Harlem's the better for your shade<br>once and still there'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old women</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lean out windows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">swaying between </div><div style="margin:10px 0">backyard buildings</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>old clothes lines, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">gray string</div><div style="margin:10px 0">thin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">thin</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'What's will when </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the window slams shut? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just old cake thrown on the street</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Purple flower boxes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">woman's hands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">folding letters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sweet soap smells</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on top steps </div><div style="margin:10px 0">wet shoes full of wind</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Overheard: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Just catching a cool breeze is all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Street don't belong to me...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'She may be crazy but she's polite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She puts her hand over her mouth </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when she coughs...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Don't be flattered a </div><div style="margin:10px 0">breeze blows in your window</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Run! Run like hell'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shouts overhead: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Keep offa my clean floor</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay outta my porcelain sink</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ya hear me? ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That mirror's not gonna change your face</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is read: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'After so very many years, it's pointless to</div><div style="margin:10px 0">look back on it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give this looking back a rest! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A clear breeze the world over</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-what limit could it have? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- Setcho, zen master & poet</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>What is written in response: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In ice streaks upward</div><div style="margin:10px 0">here's breath for you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">even this ink on paper</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this flesh on mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this writing on air</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Why try be happy/sad? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">don't affect it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">disinfect your mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">play possum</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who's somebody's darlin'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jus' time and </div><div style="margin:10px 0">gism taken on flesh</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dead soon enough</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>so pace yourself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You've run backward too long</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't want it </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as does the </div><div style="margin:10px 0">dirty river </div><div style="margin:10px 0">reflecting </div><div style="margin:10px 0">without </div><div style="margin:10px 0">acknowledgment</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</a><div class=q>
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1: writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased
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