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The Pantheon

from A Trip to Rome by Slow Roasters

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You wake up at 9am. You go back to sleep till 1pm. You are woken up by the sound of rain. You dress quickly and run to the Pantheon, you want to see rain come through the oculus. By the time you get there the rain has stopped. There is a pool of water and surrounding splatter in the center of the marble floor. This area is cordoned off by velvet ropes attached to metal poles. You sit in the pews in front of the main alter for a while, hung over.

When you leave, you drink from the spigot at the large fountain in the center of the piazza.

In the afternoon you are wandering and pass through the piazza. You sit a while on the steps of the fountain and observe the crowd.

Around 10pm you are walking through narrow streets. It is mostly retail, with a few wild baroque churches with concave facades. A little ways ahead, you see an outlet. There is sky and the tops of buildings in the distance. Then the narrow street you are walking on opens very suddenly to the piazza of the Pantheon. There it is, enormous and dark, fifty feet in front of you and at least a couple hundred feet in front of the buildings you saw in the distance, and still it just snuck up on you, you didn't even see it coming. Somebody is singing. You follow the sound and find a hobo sitting on the building's front steps, playing guitar. John Lennon echoes through the building's massive portico.

At 4am you pass through the piazza for the final time on your way home. There is nobody hanging around the portico or in the piazza. You realize you are totally alone. So you sit on the steps of the fountain, looking at the Pantheon, and consider what it is be totally alone in the presence of this massive 2000-year-old building. Soon a Carabinieri police car emerges slowly from one side of the building and parks in a corner of the piazza. Then you hear excited voices, and a group of young people walk out from the other side, making noise and taking pictures. The moment is over, and you leave. You will be flying home in a few hours.

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from A Trip to Rome, released January 29, 2016

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