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This is called
"Woman," which you

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may have all read because
it was in Ironwood, which

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is a good magazine,
which I'd like you to buy

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when the next issue comes out.

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Isn't that cute?

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It's just a very
good poetry magazine.

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"Woman."

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"The adobe walls of the
house clutch the noon heat

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in ten fists.

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And while bathing,
I fan my breasts

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watching the nipples harden.

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I pinch them, feeling
nothing but wanting to.

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And shift my weight from
left buttock to right.

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While the waters circling
my waist tightens.

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As if you had commanded it.

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I stand up spreading
my legs apart.

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Ready to release the
next ribbon of blood.

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All right, you want me now?

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This way.

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I haven't locked the door.

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My swollen belly feels
only its heaviness.

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You would weigh less than the
pain chipping away at my navel.

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With an ice pick of muscle.

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I can carry you.

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And blood have then thin
rolled down my legs.

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Cupping each foot
in a red stirrup.

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And I am riding that
invisible horse.

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The same one my mother rode.

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It's hungry.

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It has to be fed.

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The last man couldn't.

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Can you?"

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Excuse me.