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E A R LY S I X T I E S C H R I S T M A S I N T H E W E S T It takes all the strength of the girl & her mother holding the knife to slice the holiday bird. Lipton Onion Soup flakes floating in the pan. One pinch of irreverent parsley recalls a belief in plants having feelings. The father reads Camus by the fire. Each book is a Bethlehem. The crèche has an arch where violence is delayed. Around the teenage galaxy a halo of dark matter In the nearby desert iron & silicon Between the dimensions in a disciplined curved sleep fat cherubs assert their right to exist for they make more sense than McNamara about Communists Patterns float independently on the girl’s apron. Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes . Like Demeter, the mother is great at using leftovers, & the daughter finds a skill for bringing fragments from the dead: My. heart. aches. &. a. drowsy. numbness. The brothers play chess: thump-thump, wooden-skirted figures on ovals of green felt. 1 0 ...

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