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Neighborhood
Whitman embraced the duplicities and complexities of city life with an unreserved joyousness. Both Wordsworth and Blake wrote about London and, of course, Carl Sandburg gave us Chicago and The Chicago Poems from which a generation of American schoolchildren, poets, writers and artists have drawn inspiration. The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe offered the refrain that the city portrays realities that will forever remain a mystery and I, for one, am incined to agree.
My city, your city, the city of Angels or the city of Lights are all alive; mechanical, steel-reinforced creatures humming the rhythms of those who have been, those who are, those who will come. A city is a many-chambered heart, each of which has its own resident drummer. For every riddle it absorbs into the melody, a new layer of mystery is laid down in the chorus.
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