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i found chicago a tough place, if it's of any consolation, seaver.
i was there for two years and don't think i met anyone outside of the two networks i was part of, more or less--a philadelphia expat network, and one linked to the art institute.
i never liked chicago really, never felt i was part of anything there.
but i do miss the map room and the music scene and other, parallel things.
but they were more or less geographical features. you could turn up and have a great time and leave not knowing a single person new.
at a certain point, i decided it had to be my doing, but i've heard similar things from so many folk that i don't think it was.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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