The Varieties of Love
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Jan and her boyfriend rented movies,
stayed up all night, and made love after each film.
This, to Jan, was sublime: sex with the afterimage
of a blue car driving past orange shop windows,
mannequins illuminated by headlights
through the slow back-and-forth of wipers.
Two hours later, the black-and-white grain
of concrete panned by searchlights
as a man struggles over the Berlin Wall.
Near morning, a handful of skaters crisscross a lake
on the outskirts of a mining town, no soundtrack
but the thresh of blades on ice.
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