Ed Ruscha
America Whistles, from America: The Third Century (E. 84)
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Dexter Dalwood
'Twentieth Street and Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania', 21 June 1974
And the days are not full enough / And the nights are not full enough; Empty are the ways of this land; Fortitude as never before.... / Frankness as never before; You stand about the streets / You loiter at the corners and bus-stops / You do next to nothing at all; The thought of what America would be like / If the classics had a wide circulation; and I had laid out just the right books / I had almost turned down the pages
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