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The Thorn Merchant's Son Using an old water-stained Seven Year Itch movie poster as his dartboard, he places all six into the bull's-eye. The phonograph clicks silently, playing "Teen Angel" the tenth time. Sipping a Pepsi-Cola, he moves over to Pretty Baby unrolled on his daddy's desk. He runs his tongue around the edge of her smile, then picks up a paperweight & shakes it till the black horse disappears inside the glass. Grey-eyed opacity, low cloud coming over the room, he throws a wooden puzzle against a wall & the fist-shaped piece flies apart like a clay pigeon. He stares fifteen minutes at a tintype face so blue it's hardly there. With a little dance step he eases over & props an elbow on the window sill, aiming his high-powered binoculars at a woman's bedroom window. I07 from I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head ...

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