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75 Carolyn Beard Whitlow Travel Paradelle I travel through books, afraid to go outside. I travel through books, afraid to go outside where high strung telephone wires wind east. Where high strung telephone wires wind east, go to where I telephone outside, afraid— travel books: east wind strung through high wires, a sightless pilot cited for steering blindly. A sightless pilot cited for steering blindly, plane bumps down, slides, slipping forward, fast. Plane bumps down, slides, slipping forward, fast, slipping down fast forward, a plane slides, pilot, sightless, cited for steering bumps blindly. Woman orbits man; in stasis, he has the control. Woman orbits man; in stasis, he has the control: he’s a train in her tunnel leaving no tracks. He’s a train in her tunnel leaving no tracks. Woman has the control? A train man in stasis in her tunnel? He orbits, leaving. No tracks! He’s . . . man, he’s a train, fast, he slides where a pilot has telephone control, bumps down blindly in her wind tunnel leaving no tracks, plane in stasis orbits the woman, cited for steering sightless, high, east, through strung wires slipping forward. Afraid to go where? Outside. I travel through books. ...

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