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I This house shall be called a house of prayer for all people and it shall face west on the dumb side of the street across from the Cosmos Diner and there will be out-of-date notices posted with rusted thumb tacks inside makeshift windows made of plywood to keep the light out and also to keep the eyes from too much watching and too much gathering, and also to keep the glass what there is of glass from too much crumbling, and there shall be two dogs and too much sniffing and they shall run to the back and back to the front and one of them will be water and one of them land and it is their teeth and nails and it is their chests and it is their bloodshot eyes that make you jump, but as for the dogs in I. who also was here on Second Avenue watching, whenever he speaks of dogs they are as shepherds or they are shepherds and they are almost blind— and dumb—imagine a shepherd that hardly can bark, and loves to sleep—drowse he calls it—and they are the worst of shepherds—and eat meat— |
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