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There's one dated 12/22/70.

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"Black Dog."

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This poem takes place on
a telephone conversation

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in a way.

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Two Mexican wetbacks
yelling, "Lunchie, Lunchie"

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outside the door.

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She's alone.

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A beat skips across the wires.

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It's a long walk
back to Mexico, I

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realize, on the broken spine
of old vertebra mountains.

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And the dog is on his rounds.

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I suggest she give them ham.

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She gives them tuna.

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They leave.

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I have other things I
employ a doberman for.

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To watch over scattered
bones of dead beasts.

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He knows.

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He knows.

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Their sinews like roots
grope in the alkaline soil.

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The horse thief
finds a lion's head.

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Links fly on stolen wings.

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All out of that cave go back in
again in one form or another.

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He keeps them clean
and white and odd

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because we are carnivores and
will never settle in the Earth.