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Yes Philadelphia

Yes to the Lenape

Yes to Penn and Franklin

Yes to Independence’s cracked bell

Yes to Rittenhouse Square

Yes to Chesnutt Street’s ivied Penn

Yes to Market Street

Yes to the Inquirer

Yes to the Schuylkill, river and expressway

Yes to 30^th Street Train Station

Yes to the Art Museum – Duchamp and Rocky

Yes to the Main Line, Welsh Bryn Mawr, Italian Paoli

Yes to Marian Anderson’s contralto

Yes to the pages of David Bradley and Lorene Cary

Yes to W. Wilson Goode’s mayorship

Yes to each middle-Philadelphia Row House

Yes

also

to

the

Germantown

food

sign

I

saw

in 1972

Anglo-Saxon Pizzas (since 1957)