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37 Concerto for Walleyed Weary Woman “Moreso the walleyed weary woman, she said I said in her dream,” she said when I asked her “What?” after she said “I have another line for you to go with the one you said in my dream,” saying not merely the one she had to go with the one I said in her dream, but also the one I said in her dream. And then she said, after I read her “ ‘Moreso the walleyed weary woman, she said I said in her dream,’ she said when I asked her “What?” after she said ‘I have another line for you to go with the one you said in my dream,’ saying not merely the one she had to go with the one I said in her dream, but also the one I said in her dream,” “Then you could say, ‘And I repeat—’ “ And I thought she meant I could say, “And I repeat ‘ “Moreso the walleyed weary woman, she said I said in her dream,” she said when I asker her “What?” after she said “I have another line for you to go with the one you said in my dream,” 38 saying not merely the one she had to go with the one I said in her dream, but also the one I said in her dream,’ “ so I did, but she only meant me to say, “And I repeat, ‘Moreso the walleyed weary woman, she said I said in her dream,’ “ which would’ve been a whole lot shorter. Not that the woman there in her shack, hanging a cracked dishpan from a flathead nail, would’ve given a good goddamn, seeing as how she wasn’t the woman in her dream, since that was my wife, but was only an imaginary walleyed weary woman who wouldn’t go away after I found out the woman in the dream was my wife, which I only found out after reading her, “Not that the woman there in her shack, hanging a cracked dishpan from a flathead nail would have given a good goddamn.” ...

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