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42 epifania aglitter aglow mama’s manicurist epifania a man with a woman’s name arranges the small bottles in even rows ruby & gold & plata & pearl epifania’s nails blunt emerald claws a thin brown cigarette like a thermometer juts from her thin burgundy lips adam’s apple & razor burn epi is my love epifania i will marry you one day epi ay! too young for such talk besides you’ll think about epi differently when you’re a man no i won’t no epi ignores me retrieves a baggy of clouds cotton puffs & gritty boards your papa,where is he? is he still in baguio on business? papa too adores epi bows & kisses epi’s long manicured fingers epifania giggles curtsies thwack! papa slaps epi’s rump epi when are you going to thailand get chop chop? ay don jaime soon very soon will you visit me when i’m in the hospital? visit? yes with flowers & all the candy you you can stuff 43 into your sweet little mouth papa’s laughter bounces off our marble floors señorito,tell me do you have a girlfriend yet? what is chopchop,epi? epi squeaks ay señorito chopchop will make me beautiful complete epi you are very beautiful ay! but not yet a woman you are very beautiful silly i was born with a bototoy like you like your papa chopchop will turn it into a bukengkeng i don’t understand señorito you are too young epi shoos me away but not before i slap her behind thwack ay! ay! señorito you are just as bad as your papa. maybe worse. ...

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