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I knew that James Whistler was part of the Paris scene	A
but I was still surprised when I found the painting	B
of his mother at the Mus eacute e d'Orsay	C
among all the colored dots and mobile brushstrokes	C
of the French Impressionists	C
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And I was surprised to notice	C
after a few minutes of benign staring	B
how that woman stark in profile	D
and fixed forever in her chair	E
began to resemble my own ancient mother	F
who was now fixed forever in the stars the air the earth	G
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You can understand why he titled the painting	B
Arrangement in Gray and Black	H
instead of what everyone naturally calls it	I
but afterward as I walked along the river bank	J
I imagined how it might have broken	K
the woman's heart to be demoted from mother	F
to a mere composition a study in colorlessness	C
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As the summer couples leaned into each other	F
along the quay and the wide low slung boats	C
full of spectators slid up and down the Seine	L
between the carved stone bridges	C
and their watery reflections	C
I thought how ridiculous how off base	C
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It would be like Botticelli calling The Birth of Venus	C
Composition in Blue Ochre Green and Pink	M
or the other way around	N
like Rothko titling one of his sandwiches of color	F
Fishing Boats Leaving Falmouth Harbor at Dawn	O
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Or as I scanned the menu at the cafe	C
where I now had come to rest	P
it would be like painting something laughable	Q
like a chef turning on a spit	I
over a blazing fire in front of an audience of ducks	C
and calling it Study in Orange and White	R
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But by that time a waiter had appeared	S
with my glass of Pernod and a clear pitcher of water	F
and I sat there thinking of nothing	B
but the women and men passing by	T
mothers and sons walking their small fragile dogs	C
and about myself	U
a kind of composition in blue and khaki	L
and now that I had poured	V
some water into the glass milky green	A

Billy Collins

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