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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{les deux magots}
  neil mcdonell


What still exists
Of existentialists?
A bistro table
And this glass of wine?
What dregs remain to eye
As waiters offer up
Their chic disdain
To share with tourists
What all Paris knows:
To be, to be
It is to see
And to be seen.
Don't ask
What nothingness
Has fashioned
Man and woman
For these clothes.