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11 American Dreaming Bootstraps like barnacles on boats. Bootstraps in blankets. Bootstraps in bibles. Bootstraps on bonnets bubbling up from the brook’s bottom. Bootstraps make a slave’s back bloom. Bootstraps in back rooms. Bootstraps cinched to shackles in the womb. Plumes of bootstraps billow and consume. Bootstrap nooses. Bootstrap bullets. Bootstrap bombs dropped on buildings from which blazing bodies blossom. Bootstraps dangling from coffins shaped like bassinets in which ankles fester and weep. gay pages-2.indd 11 10/18/10 11:20 AM ...

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