Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in … - Elizabeth Bishop

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I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

Elizabeth Bishop

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

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