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	<title>This Ridiculous World &#187; Egypt</title>
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		<title>The City: a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen only
one true city
that cannot hide
its true citiness;
In the desert a city
cannot escape itself;
It must come out at night:
it is only practicality;
Even its religions
can only hope
to steal its reasons
for their own.
A city is not the cars dusty
wrapped in cloth
Or the style of cloth
wrapped round the people
to keep out the dust;
It is not the dust beneath it
Or the tents, cloth or stone
raised to escape it;
In the city at night
you can see it
is only a market:
two hands tender
silk for spice
batteries, milk powder
slacks or telephones.
A veiled shopper
brushes past us
Bargaining a new
veil to block the dust
or maybe the stares
the eyes of the
nine-toed man who
pauses his load
to cross traffic;
Roads are not for
driving th&#8230;


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		<title>Breakfast of Survivors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, the four different bread products aligned so neatly on the plate is no mistake.  That &#8211; along with a cup of lukewarm tea and some soft cheese &#8211; is what you eat for breakfast after a night on a rickety train sailing south into Upper Egypt.  That is all a stomach can handle.
Our train car was in the charge of a man who had apparently had his cheeks shined along with his shoes in the last station.  We were placed in a compartment at the end of the car (first class, the only available for foreigners as a matter of security&#8230;), apart from the troupe of bulky, red-faced Russians in scandalously short shorts.  Our waiter told us we could listen to the radio, but after pressing and banging on the console, determine&#8230;


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