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This last one I'm going to
read is from "Trailer Trash"

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and is called "Chapel."

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OK.

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Not a word was a word.

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The book disagrees.

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I lived by this.

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I still live by this.

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I did not have a throat
boiled with song.

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Years ago, I entered a storage
shed, a chapel of untouchables.

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My mother had left behind
many words, journals

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with 22 years of silt coating.

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Books, not books I'd
choose, not lullabies.

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She seemed to see my life before
my eyes opened, put down a road,

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and left me there.