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"My Brother, My Wound."

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He was calling in the
bulls from the street.

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They came like a dark river,
a blur of chest and hoof,

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everything moving
under splinter,

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hooked their horns
through the walls.

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Light hummed the holes
like yellow jackets.

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My mouth was a nest torn empty.

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Then he was at the table,
then in the pig's jaws.

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He was not hungry.

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He was stopped.

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He was bad apple.

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He was choking.

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So I punched my fists
against his stomach.

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Mars flew out and
broke open or bloomed.

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How many small red
eyes shut in that husk.

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He said, look, look.

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And I did.

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He said, lift up your shirt.

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And I did.

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He slid his fork
beneath my ribs.

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Yes, he sang a
Jesus' side wound.

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It wouldn't stop bleeding.

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He reached inside and
turned on the lamp.

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I never knew I was also a lamp
until the light fell out of me,

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dripped down my thigh, flew
up in me, cut in my throat

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like a canary.

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Canaries really
means dogs, he said.

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He put on his shoes.

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You started this with
your mouth, he pointed.

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Where are you going?

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I asked.

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To ride the Ferris Wheel, he
answered, and climbed inside me

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like a window.

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