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From the top here

of Vesuvio’s

I have just seen

a man with

Spectacles

and a beard

come along

Adler’s Alley

roughly

twenty-five years old

to the garbage bin and reach

in and lift

out a container

of pistachio

icecream

and lick it

with his fingers,

then reach in

for a piece of paper

and wipe his fingers

very delicately

and his mouth

very elegantly

and continue

on into the

mainstreet, what

can you

say to this

piece of bread?

Dostoyevsky?