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By Jack Joseph Smith

Chandelier It does not fall; maybe rich and poor in my mind have a common place with God and the stars that have clashed in the universe I am in the Autumn of nineteen sixty three Kennedy is almost dead, and I have been to Alaska Walking from the Goodman Institute, slanting off Rush Street, through the neighborhoods, in the early evening, approaching Old Town Chicago There the drapes were not drawn Pulled rather way back Thresholds away like an open door

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'Chandelier' opens in autumn 1963, with Kennedy almost dead, Alaska behind the speaker, and an evening walk toward Old Town Chicago becoming a threshold memory.

The corrected text clarifies the setting and movement. Public history, city walking, class, God, stars, drapes, and thresholds all begin to gather into one visual scene.

Claude

''''Chandelier' -- Autumn 1963, Kennedy almost dead, speaker walking from the Goodman Institute through Old Town Chicago. Drapes pulled back, 'Thresholds away like an open door' -- a scene opening into memory.'''