They would congregate right regular.
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( In the dirt-lot of the First Baptist
or along by that abattoir off the brackcreek. )
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The hot meat of the matter
being to parse-patch what they’d heard of what she was.
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Marrowwise what she was to them was
foreign-faced Not natural : Not from here.
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Of no ( known ) rhizomatic strain nor kith nor kin.
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Word said and word’d spread She’s some flotsam
from that load of ‘those’ what flooded here by boat.
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Say they bought some bait from off her cart—
how they’d pincer-snatch their change like she was hot.
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—pink dew-worms I got! fish-eyes & roaches. live
minnows for cheap. chicken ( neck ) gristle. no crickets.
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Her ( uncreased ) neck her every body-part their snack.
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Theirs to eyeball-eat and memorize;
to judge; to pass from each to each from mouth to ear.
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Have you smelled the hair on her. Have you
bagged a feel of leg. Would you—
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You could always put a bag on her. Why she all the time
bansheeing ( bent down ) dawn-sweeping her dirt.
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Possessed by slingstone fireball-bags of shit they torched her yard.
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( Wouldn’t they congregate
right regular. )
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By time and ire her rent-house formed a skin of dunt and char.