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This next poem is called, "Pig."

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"I pulled into Galdini
sausage at noon.

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The workers walked
out of production

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and swatted away the
flies desperate for pork.

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Pork gripped the men
and was everywhere

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in the form of blood,
in the form of fat,

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and in pink meat stuck
to the worker's shoes.

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Outside, 80-pound boxes of
pork melted under the sun,

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and as the sun worked, the
blood and fat grew soft,

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and the boxes lined
with wax became

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like thin paper soaked in oil.

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Mack trucks came in
with unprocessed pork

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and took out chorizo,
linguica, hot links,

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and sausage, German, sweet,
breakfast, hot, and mild.

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One man stood straight up
into the sky, closed his eyes,

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and with his thumb
and forefinger,

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worked out bits of meat from
his eyelashes glistening

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like black grease under the sun.

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The air conditioner in
Mr. Galdini's office

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made the papers from his
desk float onto the floor.

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He gave me a hard hat, a
smock, an apron, a hairnet.

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You're in there, he said.

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And he lifted the blinds of
a window that partitioned

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his office from production.

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He stood, gut pushed
out, and his whole body

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swayed with ease as
the workers walked out,

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hump back under the
unyielding memories of pig."

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Does anybody here like sausage--

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breakfast sausage, chorizo,
gravy with sausage in it,

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longaniza, to this day,
people always ask me,

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do you still eat sausage?

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And I say, yes, I love
sausage to this very day.

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I know what's in it, in
case you're wondering.