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The Men

Wherein is Moscow's dignity
more than Passaic's dignity ?
A few men have added color better
to the canvas, that's all.

The river is the same
the bridge is the same
there is the same to be discovered
of the sun -

Look how cold, steelgrey
runs the water of the Passaic.
The Church-of-the-Polocks'
russian towers, bulbous
kiss the sky just so sternly
dreamily, rutilely
as in Warsaw - as in Moscow -
Violet smoke rises

from the factory chimneys - only
the men are different who see it
draw it down in their minds -
or might be different