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Apprenticeship His fingernails are black & torn from blows, as if the hammer declares its own angle of reference. The young carpenter curses: "Awww, fuck! Sonovabitch! Dumb shit!" His girlfriend lowers her white dress, then moves away. She reappears nude, props one foot upon a red chair, looks him square in the eyes. Her skin glistens like a woman who's made love all afternoon. Twenty-two stories up, he steps out over the beams like a man with wings. N EON V ERN A C U L A R ...

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