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One afternoon without warning tradition died I

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Wrang the bell that heralded those 40 days of Lent

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How was I to know what they would hold

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that the serene security and

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tying bond of tradition

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was to snap

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Building by building

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Land clearance devoured our neighborhood

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The temples and the oracles that I had wandered through playing at Odysseus

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Were that spring?

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but half dusty ruins

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As Odysseus I faced the Cyclops

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Zeus with ankle clips and silver studded sword

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But never the lotus eaters who lived beyond the wall of our little Greece. I

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Had never dared to look on them

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For I had been schooled

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Alas those Greeks who tasted that honey sweetness of the lotus

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thought no more of home and

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Forgot the privilege of their birth

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They were Greek

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The people who kept their shops and lived along our gallery

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Away from the rest of the city

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They were Greek the people who taught me to dance

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Hasapiko simbeco

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to walk

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Who made the pastry passed our laws

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That was it so suddenly so small a message dropped

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Even had I read it could I have fully understood what that 40-day eviction notice meant

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Our building our home would be next

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So frost on the ground chill in the air yet bud studied what trees survived

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That early spring held a change more violent than temperate

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Hear Maria was Athena a

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Goddess of wisdom with eyes that were trained only on what had been

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Jealousy, gostoms and possessions she had brought from Greece

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Her refusal to accept the assimilation into this new city her taboos

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fostered in me a fascination for the new

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The magic of the days when we had any word from Greece or any gift

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But the embroidery of things

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That was the way it was that day

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New shawl and then that message from the land clearance office

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But did not understand the importance of our moving from Socrates

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As head of the family pop who would have to come home to read the news

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Was at the table he had occupied for 20 years

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This was one of the few times I had seen and smelled the inside of the cappanillo

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It was the world of men a world of which I was not yet a member

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The world that I would be expected to join

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Faces changed little from spring to spring the topic of discussion politics and Turkish coffee

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Changed not at all

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Hadn't entered the room while even phrase

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Whose path led to the struggling tree that only one spring ago had stood so proudly in the yard of his barber shop

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The streets that had often extended the magic of security now twisted beneath my feet

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I counted to 204 times or did I count to 402 times?

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By slow degrees I thought I could forget Socrates Street, but I was wrong

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Highway construction building destruction bobbing in the wake of the new faceless invaders. Where was I to turn?

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What would do desi's have done

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My walk that led to no decisions led me to the playground of the school

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Until that spring I had been cradled far from this place

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In fact, I rather think I was afraid no

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The stories I had heard about Americans

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American I did not know then that I would ever become one

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Can't remember which building fell when only strange machines

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The machines inside the people

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Can't we be saved?

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This is the only life we know

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Faces of that spring are reflection

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The voices and music are the memory of a memory

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Grown strong again with love

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I've seen buildings torn down since and new buildings built and

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Then the workers all sitting down for lunch

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But it's not the same as it was those 40 days

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The glass wintered 20 ways smaller the trains were 20 ways meaner 20 ways taller

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Children still like women still sing

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But there is something missing a

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Harmony a melody. I can't put my finger on it

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It isn't there

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The bugs turn brown drop into the rubble piles leaving the branches naked

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Other years during the week before Easter the boys had practiced their dances in the court behind pop whose old barbershop

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that spring

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We danced on roofs where gardens had been

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Store of mr. Dom

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That was to be the last time I'd smell the lamb and how laughter border coat

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But it was as it had been the first time as it had always been

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To gather everything of Greece that we could carry with us to our new home

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That was what fear Maria had me do that afternoon before the end

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