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|              -=-  Friday  -=-  May 01, 2026  -=-              |
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|                   In a Station of the Metro                   |
|                         By Ezra Pound                         |
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| |   | The apparition of these faces in the crowd;     |.      |
|  \_ | Petals on a wet, black bough.                   |.      |
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|     | Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" began  |.      |
|     | as a thirty-line poem (some sources say it was  |.      |
|     | thirty-two). Unhappy with it, he destroyed that |.      |
|     | initial draft.                                  |.      |
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|     | Over the next year and a half, he reduced it    |.      |
|     | dramatically until he was left with a two-line  |.      |
|     | poem of just fourteen words. Twenty words when  |.      |
|     | the title is included.                          |.      |
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|     |  /                                                 /.   |
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