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Every once in a while,
a picture in a magazine

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that I happened to
be leafing through

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will strike me in some odd
way and work on me much

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as I suppose some songs do.

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This one was from some Harper's
Bazaar or one of those things.

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And it was one of those thin
models lying on the sand

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and she had a weird colored
bathing suit or something on.

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Maybe it was painted
on, I don't know.

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But it was very strange.

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And all of this came a two
part poem called "Model."

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The wood is done with
you, and now a bird

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thrown all limbs broken
heaped in the midst

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of a centralist plane.

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The asbestos afternoon.

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No wolves howl beyond the
ridges bones poking through.

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Cheekbones bruised by the sun.

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Ribbons unwrapped from the
legs like chains coming loose,

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and the legs and tie themselves,
walk around the body.

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Your guano hair
comes off in patches.

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Wanders over the skin
looking for a place to grow.

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Gaze down at the
contours of your flesh.

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Exhibition of knuckle
bones, half moons,

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thumbs press into the bone,
collapsed into the middle

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of your peasant rags.

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One white breasts noses out,
a worm looking for a hole.

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And part two of that poem.

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Because it is a beach
and beneath the six

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suns regular as soldiers,
your legs slide out.

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One hand in the
pocket of your thigh.

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The world beneath an elbow,
breasts hard as chewing gum

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concealed in paper bags and
covered just below the hips

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on down.

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You view the boys coming
in bobbing on the sea.

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Your hair takes root,
eyes fill with birds.

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The beach turns
sky blue and they

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stumble through the surf with
bloody knees, tongues lapping

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up the sand as you point.

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And they squat before
their labor chiseling moons

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in your abdomen, the toes
dig in, and across your face

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the lips two strips of sky.

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I guess Salvador Dali
would have liked that one.

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