XXXIII
And he predicts the sale of body parts
behind the barbed wire fences, and there’s one thing
he’s sure of, if there’s money enough and the barbs
are rusty enough the ones outside will live
till fifty maybe and the ones on top of the
golf
little knolls and fiber holes till maybe
a hundred and twenty, that’s the toast in the red-brick
glass-bound dining room the end table
by the unused fireplace, a bottle of schnapps
and three or four of them left for they are greedy,
and that was the toast they made before swimming over,
and there will be a difference between the chickens,
not to mention the corn and the creamed spinach,
not to mention the cushions they use and how
they look at one another and what they flee from.
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