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"Zebra."

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"Kids once carried 10
soldiers in their pockets

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as charms against
being afraid, but how

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trust soldiers these
days not to load up,

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aim, blast the
pants off your legs?

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I have a keychain zebra I
bought at the Thanksgiving fair.

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How do I know she won't
kick or bite at my crotch?

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Because she's been
murdered, machine gunned.

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She's dead.

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Also, she's a she.

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Even so crudely
carved, you can tell

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by the sway of her belly
of foals inside her.

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Even murdered mothers
don't hurt people, do they?

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And how know she's murdered?

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Isn't everything murdered?

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Some dictator's thugs,
some rebels, some poachers,

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some drought?

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World drought, world rot,
pollution, extinction.

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Everything's murdered.

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But still not good, a dead thing
in with your ID and change.

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I fling her away,
but the death of her

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clings the death of her death,
her murder, her slaughter.

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The best part of Thanksgiving
day, though, the parade.

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Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, Kermit
the Frog, enormous as clouds.

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And the marching bands,
majorettes, anthems, and drums.

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When the great bass stomped
its galloping boom out

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to the crowd, my heart
swelled with valor and pride.

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I remembered when we saluted,
when we took off our hat."

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