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26 see no eviL Fitting, how I am the one covering my eyes in the photograph.Another covers her ears, another her mouth. This is years ago. My hair is dyed an auburn so dark, it is nearly violet. Hear No Evil is still a schoolgirl, her neat bangs cut straight across. Speak No Evil is alive, her cigarette burning down in the ashtray. Not yet put to sleep, our black dog circles before lying down, lapping cords of smoke from the air.We hardly notice as evil, a dark leak of it, slips past the gates of our fingers and into our bodies. Smoothing the snapshot back into the album, I forgive us for believing our small hands were enough. I take mine from my eyes.Another uncovers her delicate ears and listens.The last is speechless, as the dead are. ...

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