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What is caged is
also kept from us.

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"The Three Deaths" "At the
sentencing, a snake of pain

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roiled inside her veins.

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She did not faint or scream or
sink to the white tile the way

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Alma did.

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She stuck her finger
in the ripped hole

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of her pocket's lining.

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She felt inside the wool
coat, the nowhere of material,

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the black hole of
seam and stitch.

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She saw his face,
blank, borrowed

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from the grim bark of a tree.

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In Mexico, he told her once,
there are three deaths.

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First, the one where
you learn you will die.

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Then the one where you die.

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And the last is the last
time someone says your name.

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She writes his name
inside her coat,

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and then draws
her hand back out.

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She will say it until she no
longer knows her own mouth.

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His name will be her total sum.

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His third death
will never come."

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