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54 • TriO Hole in the wall is a compliment, play on a trip of carpet, plywood, drift. Piano sideways so the crowd can see me work, Ric on backbeat, Phil’s bass: our steady, heavy rock. Brothers laugh at me for being green, tightening my face as cigarette trails slap cheeks. But the money is good, better than Grandma’s fish market change, reason to miss class, keep the joint jumping ’til morning: 55 • every body fluid, every glass filled. ...

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