I see faces all around,

different shapes

and shades of hair

and colors of skin.

—inventors, theorists, thinkers

—artists, musicians, writers

and what they brought with them:

television, laser, computer,

paint, piano, and pen,

and the eighth dimension unstrung.

are only the froth,

the effervescence of the movement of peoples,

short, dark men,

digging, hammering, sweating, straining,

building houses, mending roofs.

their sorrows, their fears,

their loneliness

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