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Interviewer’s Note: i. [You walk past white high-rises]

27 Interviewer’s Note i. You walk past white high-rises seamed with mold. Past a child wading through drowned rice fields, one pink blossom tucked behind her ear. Past yourself rippling a storefront window. Victim: (noun), one that is tricked or duped. Past a woman crouched low on a jute mat selling bangles. One that is injured, destroyed under any of various conditions. Was it on a jute mat that she gave birth to the baby half-his or his or his? Victim: a living being sacrificed. Past smoke helixing from an untended fire. Past another clothesline heavy with saris: for hours they will lift into the wind, hollow of any bruised or broken body. ...