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                                                                                                Imagine now
                              what he has to do, if he walks, say, one block east
                              or one block south, what does it matter? that is,
                              what he has to say, not do, the most he can do
                              is take his clothes off like his great-granddaddy,
                              did, or sit down featherless and drink
                              a chai a la mode, except in America
                              there is no freedom to sit or walk naked
                              in public and anyhow the chill wind bloweth
                              and what about paunches and hanging breasts and flat
                              unfattened buttocks, and what about Everyday Zen
                              and Mu and Early Capitalism and Breath and
                              Eye to Eye and Erich Fromm and Wittgenstein—
                              and Comedy and Tragedy—was I. a                              
                              comedian?