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It's OK.

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No, no, let's not.

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It's too dangerous.

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I've brought a jinx
with me to the state.

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"Stone Soup."

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"But first, she has to get
born, so she invents a mother

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to hold the long wooden
wand of a cooking spoon

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fast in her fist.

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She invents the big black
zero of the iron pot,

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the stone of the pig's knuckle,
the buzz of the fridge,

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the tap scalding the soap into
suds, the tureen dunked again,

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and again.

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She invents the tintin
tabulation of the milkman's

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bottles in their wire basket,
and the sigh of the clutch

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as he disappears, and
the match that touches

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the gas burner, the blue
root, the little tiara

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of yellow fire.

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Beyond the window
it is nearly dark.

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A sudsy ocean is coughing up
a beach as hard and gray as

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poured concrete.

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She has set herself this
task, like a train lugging

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its hard body toward Portland.

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So she now must make
a father's coat,

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come home from the day
shift, its pockets drooping

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like the jowls of a hound,
and his long black shoes

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with their dew of glitter
under the fluorescent light

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of the breakfast
nook, his mustache

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like a school janitor's broom.

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She begins as talk of
labor, and of wages.

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His big hand turning over
the leaves of the light,

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and water bills
like a boring book,

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and it will not be
long now until she

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will make them make her
from nothing, from a stone,

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from a pot."

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