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The Toys
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40 The Toys Wing to wing, they bake in weather that can sizzle bacon on their stars. Fighters, bombers, trainers—Arizona stores them all unrusting in a prophecy of yesterday. West by half the Pacific, the holy salvage of another Arizona consecrates Pearl Harbor like a church. If wreckages were pages, nothing could book them. Cain’s garbage mines the Baltic, fouls forty years of bracken near Cassino, spoils Guam’s lagoon. What were these havocs to their crews but new toys for an old game? As facts left over from a fact, they speak for history ahead of all that history remembers to predict about the tactics of our kind. Cain’s rock and rocket leave us nothing new to find. In North America the oldest skull’s a woman’s, brained from behind. ...