a plump girl in a flea market

barefoot

barefoot as

the jesus doll

left

in her father’s

car

a car so yellow

it hurts one to be

inside the car

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some lady turned up her nose by pressing it to that screen door
your kid seems okay
licking

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this my face and this my totem face-

make neither
too long

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hope is a rabbit’s foot

secretly

the lord’s

slipper