I am totally unable to read this.

kol tuv, Ryfkah


In a message dated 09/03/2004 8:56:23 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

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The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = 
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Palace</st1:PlaceType> of 
<st1:PlaceName>Tears</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>

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/><o:p> </o:p>

In memoriam – Henri Cartier-Bresson

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                       &nbsp;                  
      </SPAN>Here is the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Palace</st1:PlaceType> of 
<st1:PlaceName>Tears</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                    &nbsp;     
      </SPAN>A stolid, square building.

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Bustling crowds cross and re-cross

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">    &nbsp;                                     
      </SPAN>Enter the U-Bahn, depart.

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>For homes, workplaces, infernal

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Dwellings infested with machines.

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                           
&nbsp;    </SPAN>Communication is no problem

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>For a street has a name.

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>People meet, populate cafes, bars

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                   &nbsp;      
      </SPAN>They have many trivial cares

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>And many trivial loves and likes

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Such talk the future soon forgets.

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                          &nbsp;               
      </SPAN>Beneath the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Palace</st1:PlaceType> of 
<st1:PlaceName>Tears</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Are the trash cans, broken bottles,

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Rubble, remains, a yesterday

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">      &nbsp;                                   
      </SPAN>Broken into, disinterred.

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>So the crowd disperses

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>It needs to be told what to do 

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>So intimately, so easily

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>And a crowd can be led.

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                   &nbsp;                      
      </SPAN>Raise a hand, wave a handkerchief

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                             &
nbsp;  </SPAN>Read out the latest news:

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Laugh, cry – the gamut of human emotions.

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">           &nbsp;                              
      </SPAN>The eternal photographer grimaces, unkempt

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                 &nbsp;        
      </SPAN>His vignettes and silhouettes and Leica

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Camera are everywhere, he is the neatly dressed man

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>On the train, merely immortal,

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                     &nbsp;                    
      </SPAN>Well dressed but cold.

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                             
&nbsp;  </SPAN>He fiddles with his Leica

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>He says nothing, he retorts (when questioned)

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">           &nbsp;                              
      </SPAN>‘I am a photographer and untrained.’

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                     &nbsp;    
      </SPAN>Not so much a doppelganger

<o:p> </o:p>

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                               
 </SPAN>Your brother, he departs.

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">   &nbsp;                                      
      </SPAN>At the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Palace</st1:PlaceType> of 
<st1:PlaceName>Tears</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                &nbsp;                         
      </SPAN>The carriage is chill, not so

<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                           &nb
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