Emmanuel Moses Biography

He had remembered old conversations with this one and that one,
Viaticums which seemed to him to be past use,
In a room almost entirely occupied by a baby grand piano,
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From Bergen they write: we'll be back before the holidays,
we miss you,
from the Côte d'Azur: it's hard to love by proxy
but still
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At the hour when the world ceases to be
you will be sitting under a plane-tree half unleafed
on a lively, noisy avenue
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Mr. Nobody, no longer young, develops an allergy to tuna;
he discovers this by accident
in an Italian restaurant in the historic city center.
His face turns red, his eyes go bloodshot
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In the Destiny Motel, Mr. Nobody carefully reworks the last act
of a play begun six decades earlier in an African country
beneath its flags and lime-whitened acacias.
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