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We lifted the body |
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from the water like a gown |
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You took off your bra |
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to wrap the wound, |
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though the man was dead |
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and there was no need. |
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Then your face turned red |
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when you said to me: |
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"I'll suck the marrow out and rape your hollow bones, Yoni." |
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Alone, putting three coins into a washing machine, |
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next to a caulked, cracked wall |
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in the basement on Fairmount Street, |
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I feel like a loop of the last eight frames of film before a |
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slow motion Lee Harvey Oswald |
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gets shot in the gut and killed |
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"Billy the kid did what he did and he died." |
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-Marilyn Hacker |