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            <p><span class="line">A dead man finds his way into our <a href="words-meaning.html">hearts</a></span><span class="line">simply by opening the door and walking in.</span><span class="line">He pours himself a drink, speaks aimlessly</span><span class="line">about hunting or some bats he saw</span><span class="line">on the way over, wheeling around each other.</span><span class="line">Look how <a href="moongone.html">they spin</a>, he says, it’s like the</span><span class="line">ripples atoms make as they hurl past each other</span><span class="line">in the space between their bodies.</span><span class="line">We mention the eels at the aquarium, how</span><span class="line">their bodies <a href="spittle.html">knot while mating</a>. The dead man</span><span class="line">was a boyscout once, and tied a lot of knots.</span><span class="line">His favorite was the one with the rabbit</span><span class="line">and the hole, and the rabbit going in and out</span><span class="line">and around the tree. The dead man liked it</span><span class="line">because he liked to pretend that the rabbit</span><span class="line">was running from a fox, and the rabbit</span><span class="line">always ended up safe, back in his hole.</span></p>
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