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POEMS BY MARIANNE MOORE
IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH?
Why so desolate?
And why multiply
  in phantasmagoria about fishes,
   what disgusts you? Could
    not all personal upheaval in
     the name of freedom, be tabood?

Is it Nineveh
and are you Jonah
  in the sweltering east wind of your wishes?
   I, myself have stood
    there by the aquarium, looking
     at the Statue of Liberty.

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