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"Violence."

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"And the night is as
dark as mother's closet

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with its big woolens.

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And in the kitchen a piece of
pork hisses in a black pan,

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oiled in its own fat, pink
and wrinkled as a baby's ass.

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Not how can it be
imagined, but how not,

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how not to be there, under
the ceiling bulb where

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shadows swell then slacken--

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sails in the winds
of an argument

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of a man with a whole dim
tribe called womanhood.

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To the left, the parlor, bulges
and ruptures of broken springs

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and stuffing, the
davenport's red velvet

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like the blush of blood that
comes through the crushed ice

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on the cooler's dead pike.

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Along the split rail fence,
the white hens bloom,

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and the far door of
the Pentecostal church

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is all light and holler.

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The uncontrollable
pleasure of blessedness

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dies to the low
shiver of the hymns,

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and then the reverend's
fist pounds the air,

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as though to make someone
who is getting up stumble

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and fall down, fall down again."