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There are places where the eye can starve	A
But not here Here for example is	B
The Piazza Navona amp here is his narrow room	C
Overlooking the Steps amp the crowds of sunbathing	D
Tourists And here is the Protestant Cemetery	E
Where Keats amp Joseph Severn join hands	F
Forever under a little shawl of grass	G
And where Keats's name isn't even on	H
His gravestone because it is on Severn's	G
And Joseph Severn's infant son is buried	I
Two modest grassy steps behind them both	J
But you'd have to know the story how bedridden	K
Keats wanted the inscription to be	E
Simple amp unbearable quot Here lies one	K
Whose name is writ in water quot On a warm day	L
I stood here with my two oldest friends	G
I thought then that the three of us would be	E
Indissoluble at the end amp also that	M
We would all die of course And not die	N
And maybe we should have joined hands at that	M
Moment We didn't All we did was follow	O
A lame man in a rumpled suit who climbed	P
A slight incline of graves blurring into	Q
The passing marble of other graves to visit	R
The vacant home of whatever is not left	S
Of Shelley amp Trelawney That walk uphill must	T
Be hard if you can't walk At the top the man	U
Wheezed for breath sweat beaded his face	G
And his wife wore a look of concern so	O
Habitual it seemed more like the way	L
Our bodies someday will have to wear stone	V
Later that night the three of us strolled	W
Our arms around each other through the Via	X
Del Corso amp toward the Piazza di Espagna	V
As each street grew quieter until	Y
Finally we heard nothing at the end	Z
Except the occasional scrape of our own steps	G
And so said good bye Among such friends	G
Who never allowed anything still alive	A2
To die I'd almost forgotten that what	R
Most people leave behind them disappears	G
Three days later staying alone in a cheap	B2
Hotel in Naples I noticed a child's smeared	C2
Fingerprint on a bannister It	D2
Had been indifferently preserved beneath	E2
A patina of varnish applied I guessed after	F2
The last war It seemed I could almost hear	G2
His shout years later on that street But this	G
Is speculation amp no doubt the simplest fact	H2
Could shame me Perhaps the child was from	I2
Calabria amp went back to it with	J2
A mother who failed to find work amp perhaps	G
The child died there twenty years ago	O
Of malaria It was so common then	V
The children crying to the doctors for quinine	V
And to the tourists who looked like doctors for quinine	V
It was so common you did not expect an aria	X
And not much on a gravestone either although	O
His name is on it amp weathered stone still wears	G
His name not the way a girl might wear	K2
The too large faded blue workshirt of	L2
A lover as she walks thoughtfully through	Q
The Via Fratelli to buy bread shrimp	M2
And wine for the evening meal with candles	G
The laughter of her friends amp later the sweet	N2
Enkindling of desire but something else something	D
Cut simply in stone by hand amp meant to last	O2
Because of the way a name any name	P2
Is empty And not empty And almost enough	Q2
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