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I went downstairs in a bungalow
I went upstairs in a flat
I went outside my prison
I trod upon a cat.
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The cat climbed up a tree
The tree grew tall from roots
The roots thrust in the earth
The earth gave up its ghosts.
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The ghosts were spooking me
The roots had bound the earth
The tree had pierced the sky
Where was the cat?
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It never came back.
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Romain Gary (1914-1980) was born Roman Leibovich Kacew in Vilnius, then part of the Russian Empire. His parents, both Jewish, divorced in 1925. After periods in Moscow and Warsaw, he and his mother arrived in Nice. He studied law before joining the French Air Force in 1938, training as a pilot. Following the French Armistice…
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