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Got two more, very short.

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There are 15 scorpions pressed
apart with a stick used for

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Stirring paint that I
need to tell you about,

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Couldn't tell you
how they dwelled.

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Haven't killed enough,

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They emerged through the
cracks in the block wall,

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separating each box of this
cro-magnon neighborhood.

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I can tell you I wept,
smashing sections

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as they escaped, moving like
those fuckers from alien flicks.

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Anyway, it's been
countless years

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since I searched
the yard perimeter.

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Black light, a false
beacon in the muted night,

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A 9-mil nestled against my hip,

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Bullet chambered to
blast the skinheads

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My sister told of, frantic,
having driven the city all night

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Among deadened asphalt synapses.

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We wait for dawn's
liminal thread

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to offer blurred
visions for sleep.

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She described a battle
between cops and neo-Nazis.

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I perceived it as a singular
and internal until somewhere

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in the conflict

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The house was injured,
ruined and left as such.

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This ruin never occurred.

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It was a wreck

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I'm embarrassed to speak on of
a false band a quarter too far.

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I want to be clear
about the scorpions.

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My wife crept behind
me with her phone,

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while I, among the
apparitions of depression,

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Released the safety and cleared
the house of the nothing there.

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Hateful, I hadn't
killed anything.

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[APPLAUSE]

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