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American Cocktail Party in Paris
The room was early modern.
There was no color, nor did there seem to be
any pleasant absence of it.
The paneling
had been scraped off the walls,
but they had forgotten the cornice
and the dirty white marble mantel.
The chairs were too big
or perhaps the room was too small.
On the grand piano
there was an elongated white china panther
and a large photograph of a royal prince
in a silver frame.
One had the impression
of being underground.
A young man sang at the piano.