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This next one is
titled "43," and it

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is about the students of
Guerrero, Mexico, who were

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disappeared, murdered in 2014.

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"Their bodies have
not yet been found.

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The moment before death,
the air inexplicably

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tastes of wet horse.

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The chest expands, and something
unspools like wet vines.

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In this land of child brides
and teenage assassins,

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a bus full of students dissolves
into the mountain mist--

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a retinue of
beheaded journalists

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mouth clues while the young
president delivers platitudes.

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But what do they matter?

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The students don't
know the kilos

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of heroin stored below them.

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A boy of 18 eyes gray
as bath water charts

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a man's face under
his black mask.

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Why even bother,
the boy wonders?

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The night's only
witnesses, the stars.

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An ocelot, a single strand of
hair caught in a barbed wire.

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Even the zopilotes won't eat
the blood of the unsayable.

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The blood birds hiss and grunt
while a man with pointed teeth

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whistles a love song.

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Why waste time with metaphors?

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The body is kindling.

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The body is a plastic
bouquet shriveled.

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At a crossing, the
trees bow and weep,

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but everybody knows the
rain revises nothing.

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The charred bones
belong to no one.

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Beyond the verdant mountain, a
caravan of mothers and fathers

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beg a cankered country
for the locus of cruelty.

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Farther, a troupe
of camouflaged men

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burn fields of red poppies--

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those lovely flowers of
happiness and squalor."

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