Whispered to a Face on the Subway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g7K7m1sfNU

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But you do have comrades, whom

you notice on the subway perhaps,

who may even be "friends" in some way,

who know the toughness and the tragedy

and (to me above all) the sense of loneness

that New York does, I agree, insist

we deal with, and if there is a triumph

to be had, it’s that we’ve managed to stay

here – and consists mostly in what we have

done to be able to stay here and - this

struck me as something very true in you –

to know that were we to have to leave

we would miss it inconsolably: to know

that we would never have anything

elsewhere like the lives we have here.

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