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to the memory of my friend SI YA U	A
whose head was cut off in Shanghai	B
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A CLAIM	C
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Renowned Leonardo's	D
world famous	D
La Gioconda	E
has disappeared	E
And in the space	D
vacated by the fugitive	F
a copy has been placed	E
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The poet inscribing	G
the present treatise	D
knows more than a little	H
about the fate	E
of the real Gioconda	E
She fell in love	I
with a seductive	F
graceful youth	J
a honey tongued	E
almond eyed Chinese	D
named SI YA U	A
Gioconda ran off	K
after her lover	L
Gioconda was burned	E
in a Chinese city	E
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I Nazim Hikmet	E
authority	E
on this matter	L
thumbing my nose at friend and foe	M
five times a day	E
undaunted	E
claim	C
I can prove it	E
if I can't	E
I'll be ruined and banished	E
forever from the realm of poesy	D
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Part One	N
Excerpts from Gioconda's Diary	E
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March Paris Louvre Museum	O
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At last I am bored with the Louvre Museum	O
You can get fed up with boredom very fast	E
I am fed up with my boredom	O
And from the devastation inside me	E
I drew this lesson	N
to visit	E
a museum is fine	P
to be a museum piece is terrible	H
In this palace that imprisons the past	E
I am placed under such a heavy sentence	D
that as the paint on my face cracks out of boredom	O
I'm forced to keep grinning without letting up	Q
Because	D
I am the Gioconda from Florence	D
whose smile is more famous than Florence	D
I am bored with the Louvre Museum	O
And since you get sick soon enough	R
of conversing with the past	E
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I decided	E
from now on	S
to keep a diary	E
Writing of today may be of some help	T
in forgetting yesterday	E
However the Louvre is a strange place	D
Here you might find	E
Alexander the Great's	D
Longines watch complete with chronometer	E
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but	E
not a single sheet of clean notebook paper	E
or a pencil worth a piaster	E
Damn your Louvre your Paris	D
I'll write these entries	D
on the back of my canvas	D
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And so	D
when I picked a pen from the pocket	E
of a nearsighted American	N
sticking his red nose into my skirts	D
his hair stinking of wine	P
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I started my memoirs	D
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I'm writing on my back	U
the sorrow of having a famous smile	V
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March Night	E
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The Louvre has fallen asleep	W
In the dark the armless Venus	D
looks like a veteran of the Great War	E
The gold helmet of a knight gleams	D
as the light from the night watchman's lantern	X
strikes a dark picture	E
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Here	E
in the Louvre	E
my days are all the same	C
like the six sides of a wood cube	Y
My head is full of sharp smells	D
like the shelf of a medicine cabinet	E
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March	Z
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I admire those Flemish painters	D
is it easy to give the air of a naked goddess	D
to the plump ladies	D
of milk and sausage merchants	D
But	E
even if you wear silk panties	D
cow silk panties cow	A2
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Last night	E
a window	D
was left open	N
The naked Flemish goddesses caught cold	E
All day	E
today	E
turning their bare	E
mountain like pink behinds to the public	B2
they coughed and sneezed	E
I caught cold too	E
So as not to look silly smiling with a cold	E
I tried to hide my sniffles	D
from the visitors	D
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April	H
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Today I saw a Chinese	D
he was nothing like those Chinese with their topknots	D
How long	C2
he gazed at me	E
I'm well aware	E
the favor of Chinese	D
who work ivory like silk	D2
is not to be taken lightly	E
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April	H
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I caught the name of the Chinese who comes every day	E
SI YA U	E
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April	H
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Today we spoke	E2
in the language of eyes	D
He works as a weaver days	D
and studies nights	D
Now it's a long time since the night	E
came on like a pack of black shirted Fascists	D
The cry of a man out of work	F2
who jumped into the Seine	E
rose from the dark water	E
And ah you on whose fist size head	E
mountain like winds descend	E
at this very minute you're probably busy	E
building towers of thick leather bound books	D
to get answers to the questions you asked of the stars	D
READ	E
SI YA U	E
READ	E
And when your eyes find in the lines what they desire	E
when your eyes tire	E
rest your tired head	E
like a black and yellow Japanese chrysanthemum	O
on the books	D
SLEEP	W
SI YA U	E
SLEEP	W
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April	H
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I've begun to forget	E
the names of those Renaissance masters	D
I want to see	E
the black bird and flower	E
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watercolors	D
that slant eyed Chinese painters	D
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drip	G2
from their long thin bamboo brushes	D
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NEWS FROM THE PARIS WIRELESS	D
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HALLO	H
HALLO	H
HALLO	H
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PARIS	D
PARIS	D
PARIS	D
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Voices race through the air	E
like the fiery greyhounds	D
The wireless in the Eiffel Tower calls out	E
HALLO	H
HALLO	H
HALLO	H
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PARIS	D
PARIS	D
PARIS	D
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I TOO am Oriental this voice is for me	E
My ears are receivers too	E
I too must listen to Eiffel	H
News from China	E
News from China	E
News from China	E
The dragon that came down from the Kaf mountains	D
has spread his wings	D
across the golden skies of the Chinese homeland	E
But	E
in this business it's not only the British lord's	D
gullet shaved	E
like the thick neck	H2
of a plucked hen	I2
that will be cut	E
but also	D
the long	C2
thin	J2
beard of Confucius	D
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FROM GIOCONDA'S DIARY	E
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April	H
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Today my Chinese	D
looked my straight	E
in the eye	B
and asked	E
Those who crush our rice fields	D
with the caterpillar treads of their tanks	D
and who swagger through our cities	D
like emperors of hell	H
are they of YOUR race	D
the race of him who CREATED you	E
I almost raised my hand	E
and cried No	D
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April	H
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Tonight at the blare of an American trumpet	E
the horn of a horsepower Ford	E
I awoke from a dream	K2
and what I glimpsed for an instant	E
instantly vanished	E
What I'd seen was a still blue lake	L2
In this lake the slant eyed light of my life	M2
had wrapped his fingers around the neck of a gilded fish	N2
I tried to reach him	O2
my boat a Chinese teacup	Q
and my sail	H
the embroidered silk	D2
of a Japanese	D
bamboo umbrella	E
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NEWS FROM THE PARIS WIRELESS	D
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HALLO	E
HALLO	E
HALLO	E
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PARIS	D
PARIS	D
PARIS	D
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The radio station signs off	K
Once more	E
blue shirted Parisians	D
fill Paris with red voices	D
and red colors	D
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FROM GIOCONDA'S DIARY	E
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May	E
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Today my Chinese failed to show up	Q
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May	E
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Still no sign of him	O2
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May	E
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My days	D
are like the waiting room	P2
of a station	N
eyes glued	E
to the tracks	D
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May	E
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Sculptors of Greece	D
painters of Seljuk china	E
weavers of fier	E