These are the days when, however simple the future, we do not gotowards it but leave part of life in a lobby whose elevatorsdivide and enclose us, brightening digits that showexactly where we are headed, while a young Polish womanis emptying an ashtray, and we are drawn to a windowwhose strings, if we pull them, widen an emptiness.
-Derek Walcott
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