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"Arizona Blonde."

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"Arizona blonde, a tarantula,
lives in a two-inch burrow

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with strands of silk, mesquite
leaves, saguaro spine, ashes,

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desert lavender, a boy, and a
thimble-sized monsoon puddle.

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Here , she combs her
light brown hair,

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holding mesquite leaves
in her pedipalps.

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She brews mead in a
Gambel's quail eggshell.

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Once, Arizona was stirring
the brew and scalded her legs.

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Strands of silk began to moan.

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The boy who slouched
in the corner asked,

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'What are you moaning for?'

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Silk replied, 'Arizona
has scoffed herself.'

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The boy began to weep.

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Saguaro spine began to run
very fast past a heap of ashes,

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which cried out, 'Why do
you rumba, little spine?'

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'Because,' replied
saguaro spine,

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Arizona has scandaled herself.

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The boy wefts, strands of silk
mobb and mesquite leaves sweep.

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'Then,' said the ashes,
'I will burn furiously.'

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Desert lavender asked, 'Little
heap, why do you burnish?'

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'Because Arizona's
scansioned herself.'

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And the boy is weighted, strands
of silk mock, mesquite leaves

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swell.

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Saguaro spine rumors on so fast.

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Desert lavender cried,
'I will shake myself!'

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and went on shaking until
fragrance was wafted

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among them quite pliantly.

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A girl passing by with a
water pitcher saw lavender

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and shallows and asked, 'Why
do you shamble yourself?'

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'Why may I not?' asked lavender.

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'Arizona's scarce herself.'

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The boy welled
strands of silk cross

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a moat mesquite leaves
swerve saguaro spine ruminate

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and ashes burrow.

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'Then,' the girl said, 'I
will break my pitcher.'

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And she threw it down into
myriad of pie-eyed shards.

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Monsoon puddle grew
suddenly deeper asked,

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'Why did you break
your pitcher?'

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Arizona's scathing
herself and the boy

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wields his weight, strands
of silk mope, mesquite

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leaves swill, saguaro spines
rummage, ashes bustle,

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desert lavender
shackles her leaves.

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Now, it is my turn.

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Monsoon puddle shuddered
haphazardly reflecting

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a suddenly storied sky.

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Thunder interrupted,
then feral rain.

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Monsoon puddle became a rivulet
and flouted and floured along

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in a stovepipe stream,
which kept growing lanky

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and unbridled until they all
crept up out of the hollow

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to a higher vista.

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Whereupon Arizona
said, 'Don't worry.

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These legs are no bother.'

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And then she took them off,
along with her entire tan suit.

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At first, the boy gasped,
but when Arizona walked away

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from her old molt, he
stood very still, watching.

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And then he laughed and asked if
he might carry her molt away."

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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