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Neutral Air

Alice Miller
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Off the Ringstraße, by the hotel

you died in, a screen

shows each week, a new opera.

It calls itself HD but is blurred.

It won't say what poetry makes. This is no time

like your present; this town forgot

most of your century, which killed archduke

then empire then put up plaques to

forget you, for you are

nowhere near. I know that now.

I climbed to the top of the hotel's stairs,

looked down, heard no screams, no voices.

Today there is no opera.

We love one another, we die, what laziness will save us?

What brinks?

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Nowhere Nearer
, pp. 26
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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