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This is called Amanda is Shod.

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And this poem depends on an
old sort of folklore thing

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about saving your fingernail
and toenail pairings

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so that your enemies
can't get them.

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Amanda is shown.

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The way the cooked
shoes sizzle dropped

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in a pail of cold
water, the way the coals

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and the portable forge
winked out like hungry eyes,

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the way the nails go in a slant,
each one the tip of a snake's

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tongue and the look
of the pairings

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after the farriers knife
has sliced through.

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I collect them,
four marbled white

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sees as refined
as petrified wood

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and dry them to circles
of bone and hang them away

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on my closet hook lest anyone
cast a spell on Amanda.

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