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On the third line, a tear may boil in the ovens of the eye
When you learn he collected bottles in the streets
For a living.

One can imagine the back bowing, the hand reaching out
To the glass neck, the slice being cut from the bread of shame.
From this angle, it’s hard to be sated even from Parisian legs
Joined at the hips of girls with whom God was laughing
In the delivery room.