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Here's one that I'd
like to read to you.

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I just came from a restaurant
where the food was fabulous,

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and it's hard to read after
you have such a great meal.

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But I did ask for one of
those little espresso shots.

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Woo.

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Like Bukowski, does
anybody have a beer?

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No.

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OK.

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This one is my story about a
man who goes to look for his

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parents , and he
finds his mother.

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And this is the story
about his mother.

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At dawn, rusted field iron,
stock tanks, and gates,

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smolder mist.

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Engine echoes humming deep
shafts of gray dawn silence.

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Then we're away beyond
the railroad tracks.

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Padre Padilla tugs
the knotted bell rope,

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claps the iron, welcome to
black veiled viejas mumbling

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Spanish prayers as they walk
down field paths meandering

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to the church.

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Some men arrive on
horses shuddering due

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from their flanks, snorting
at the sweet scent of field

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flowers.

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Distant groans from St Francis
Church reach you mother

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as you scraped seed
out of the feed sack.

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Slop, last night's
supper greens to chickens

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and pale windmill water
to calves and pigs.

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You were the most beautiful
girl in the pueblo.

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Good natured, smiling, 
green-eyed fair skinned.

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After school, the bus left you
on tracks you followed home,

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and the lonely afternoon in
the vast expanse of Yanan

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was a blue knife
sharpening it's silver edge

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on the horizon of mountains.

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The wind blew over and
breathed a cool sigh of disk

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whirling sand at your
ankles, rustling corn stocks,

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rippling water and troughs
and blowing your thick flowing

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hair.

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You hung out at the
local gas station,

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dreamed of being a
calendar pin up girl,

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and four hours flipped
through romance magazines

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and imagined yourself in
a bathing suit embraced

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by a matinee idol.

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