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Times When
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49 Times When Vast, empty, and unkempt lots existed between houses and on corners. Stakes were pounded in, tents went up, corrals and booths. Bleating, neighing and grunting in the night, machinery oiled into distant rhythm. Tanned strangers wandered the neighborhood, a canvas-covered truck sat in the alley. Some women wore no underwear. One woman drew a boy into her. Her jewelry jangled and a viscous liquid spilled from her, some onto the boy. It was as if the leaves of the forest had been crushed, as if his scalp had been turned inside-out. J.C. ...