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There are a number of poems
in this collection which

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are prose poems,
which is usually

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enough to send a chill
through the heart of anyone.

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[LAUGHS]

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I'll read, they're
called "Anxiety Number...

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Numbered".

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They come from an archive almost
as big as this archive here

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in Tucson.

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Of similar anxieties,
I just have a wardrobe

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to keep them in there.

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"Anxiety Number Five."

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"I need to go to the bathroom.

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Inside, it's very bright with
spotless white tiles from floor

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to ceiling.

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As I'm washing my hands, I
noticed the door of the shower

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is covered in pieces
of colored paper.

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Crossing the room,
I see that these are

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Polaroids taped neatly in rows.

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They show a man going
through the stages of torture

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with a razor blade.

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His mouth held shut with
the same duct tape used

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to display the photographs.

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The interior, visible behind
him, clearly the same bathroom.

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The process had been
drawn out over some time.

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A number of the wounds
had already congealed.

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The lines were very straight
across the face, and chest,

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around the arms, and so on,
like the lines on graph paper.

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In the first photo,
you can see his eyes.

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By the end, he is
unrecognizable.

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The last photograph is blurred.

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There is no sign of
blood on the white tiles.

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They are clean and fresh.

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I return to the Polaroids and
noticed the last one is not

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blurred anymore.

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It is still developing.

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I begin to make out the
back of a man's head.

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He is looking into
pieces of colored paper."

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