I Walk These Streets

I walk O’Connell Street, across
the Liffey, then down
the Via Veneto; wander amidst
the Florentine wares, stride
from the Spanish Steps, Omonia Square

I come back to myself, out
of the orange groves; away
from Key Largo, and onto the streets
I know so well, invaded now
by strangers and violent sheep

I look every place, weighed
by responsibility and imminent
doom; I cannot find it
on Morro, or Higuera: nor anywhere,
else except within these lines I tell myself

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