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This is also a lighter level.

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It's called the Siamese twins.

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And when I was--

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I don't know how I must
have been about 11 or 12.

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Just at a point of
sexual awakening.

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And I was asked by the
druggist across the street

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to deliver some drugs to
two old ladies he said.

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I didn't know who they were.

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And they would give me $0.50.

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So I brought over the drugs.

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And an old lady
answered the door stout.

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And while she was
reaching in her pocketbook

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for my Eisenhower 50 cent piece,
she was being tugged away.

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And being 11 years
old, or whatever

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you're allowed to stare
and see what's going on.

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Looked around.

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There was another
little old lady.

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A little less stout
connected to her by the hip.

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They were as it turned out later
the oldest living Siamese twins

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in the country.

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They were the Gibb sisters.

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My mother told me about him.

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She mentioned that when
she had been a kid,

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she saw them in the
sideshow in Atlantic City.

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And that they were
very happy ladies.

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And they were nice to me.

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They gave me my $0.50 in a
poem 30 years later, whatever.

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The Siamese Twins.

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Out the door, a
hand, or arm, a slip,

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a swift look tells which one.

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Fat one, thin one,
shadow and light.

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They float from
sunlight to shadow.

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And the boy, the
new boy is confused.

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Which one?

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Two nearly identical faces
lean over and oak and table.

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Thin one has a fugitive charm
skittering off to the bathroom.

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Fat one knits a scarf of
winter blue and white.

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Invited to sit or stand.

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He sips a cup of tea.

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Two faces reason from the steam.

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They are two of them
so much he loses count.

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Both are breathless
beholding the new shiny coin

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from his coin collection and the
frayed sneakers from his paper

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route.

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Their eyes penetrate
and won't let go.

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In the other world, his twin
is doing a phantom dance,

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a silver thing.

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The poster on the wall
above the fireplace

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presents a circus
time, a story time.

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Two goddesses emerge as
steam from a GreenLake

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dotted with islands.

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The original lovely things.

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His wish, to come upon
them naked on the beach.

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Pine shadows mingle
their pairs of breasts.

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They tremble because they are
surprised once more beheld.

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They are his mother says.

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The famous Gibbs sisters seen
as a child in Atlantic City.

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They were so pretty then.

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They sat over tea and chatted.

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He'll never remember
what was said.

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But pictured them
trying to swim a lake.

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Two naked identical ladies
each angry at each other,

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each swimming toward a different
island on which was a shack

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a catch of coins a
miserable strip of beach.

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