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   It piles up in your cuffs

         he said dogging the glare

         a warm diving down the neck

         The cows rise on an afternoon 


         going to town

         two by two


         They hang out the shirts

         looking for them over the

         top of the clothes line

         Merchant rocks guide

         sleep and prepare

         you for it


         The animals sing in town

         as the grass bursts


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