Poems (Marianne Moore)/IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH?

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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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