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The body that surrounds him is his, but his insides are not.
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<td style="text-align: left;"><a href="sixteenth-chapel.html">He was born</a> on a few separate occasions</td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em><a href="stayed-on-the-bus.html">green traffic lights</a> at night</em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">There was the day of his conception<br />a wintery affair saved for those involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em><a href="options.html">a TV in front of a dumpster</a></em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">The day he wriggled forth<br />from the dark tunnel of nothing<br /><a href="death-zone.html">his mother’s womb</a></td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em>surprise photo of you at Walgreen’s</em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">The founding of his little city<br />deep inside by the small builders<br />alien as they were and still<br />somehow intimately familiar</td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em>a <a href="in-bed.html">pink dress in the alley</a> behind your house</em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">Like any city it had its ups<br />and downs the fever of 1994<br />was especially devastating<br />but they were a hardy folk<br />not much given to flight</td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em>me buying a Reese’s peanut butter cup for a child</em><br /><em>[whose family couldn’t afford it]</em><br /><em><a href="last-bastion.html">in front of me in line at Safeway</a></em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">As all things must pass the<br />little city began slowly to decay<br />the <a href="creation-myth.html">old ones claimed the young</a><br />had no respect for culture anymore</td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em>trees at night their skeletons</em><br /><em>revealed by a camera flash</em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">They began to die off slowly<br />more quickly than being born<br />the end was coming closer</td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em><a href="the-sea_the-beach.html">two earthworms on pavement after a rain</a></em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">As the <a href="last-passenger.html">last breath</a> was made<br />the last accounts closed in the city</td>
<td style="text-align: right;"><em>keys tacked to a sign in Buffalo Park</em></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;">It was given over to other builders</td>
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