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"Dental Hygiene."

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"My desk looks at my
broken mouth the way

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I'd look at a child
who innocently--"

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oh, I'm sorry-- "innocently
yells the word nigger then

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smiles.

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Oh, baby Jesus, is
there an alibi for this?

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That's what I hear beneath those
weekly sighs, poverty, child

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abuse?

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Look at this.

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He sighs and gives me the
Yiddish word for dirt.

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And I understand by his
tone that a person who

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carries this word
between his teeth

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chooses to live
somewhere beyond kinship.

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Look at this, he sighs.

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Exposing the residue of a
ton of meals to the light.

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Hard yellow diamonds of what I
like, of what I have swallowed,

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will swallow again.

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He tut-tuts again in
Yiddish as he scrapes.

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And I see myself dressed in
sackcloth, singing in this poem

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as I stumble barefoot through
the marketplace rattling

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my fool black teeth out."

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