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The wind dying, I find a city deserted, except for crowds of

people moving and standing.

    Those standing resemble stories, like stones, coal from the

death of plants, bricks in the shape of teeth.

    I begin now to write down all the places I have not been—

starting with the most distant.

    I build houses that I will not inhabit.

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