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Goldilocks’s daddy is carried around by his neck. His bib, cross-stitched with “Baby” and a small orange giraffe, is a double-knotted chokehold. Goldilocks drives fast. She zooms through the dining room, past the record player, and crashes into the dishwasher. Once the dog stops barking, she steps from her red roadster and surveys the landscape. What does debris mean? What does intact mean? A herd of farm animals freeze as she strolls over and plucks a goat like a guitar string, until he pops off the gray pasture and falls to his death in the heating vent. Over the loudspeaker, the voice of God sings: There was a farmer, had a dog . . .