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By Jack Joseph Smith

Chandelier In the Autumn of nineteen sixty three I would be walking through Old Town Chicago In the late evening when the drapes were not drawn Pulled rather way back, right to the molding of their threshold Great bif natural glass, stretched at their fronts It was easy to see, that short stoops were a way into riches Thuging under a new Moon o To theatrical to notice

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"Chandelier" remembers Old Town Chicago in 1963 as an evening theater of exposed windows, short stoops, and visible wealth under a new moon.

The drapes pulled back make the houses feel less private than staged, inviting the speaker to read class through architecture and glass. Short stoops become an emblem of entry into riches, a compressed route from street to displayed interior. The final source wording, To theatrical to notice, lets the page end on a strange theatricality that may be too obvious to register.

Claude

Chandelier: Autumn of nineteen sixty three, Old Town Chicago, drapes pulled back to the molding, great big natural glass. Short stoops as a way into riches.