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        across from a restroom dressed as bethlehem,
        i promised the thin collegeman in kringledrag
        his due gobble of almond jumbles and a half-full
        moon before another three dozen little angels
        swore the same. after putting down felt-tailed
        comet, the elves erected a stand selling supernova-
        shaped sunglasses. i once went to wailwander Home
        wearing a firepink pair down the tollway. “there, their”
        lenses diffracted the halogens heralding 18 wheels
        into as many dazzling crosses—
i sidestaggered and stood
in squirrel.

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