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NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: HE SANG I'M TALKING THROUGH A HAT THAT ISN'T MINE. IT'S
Last Line: SMALL, TREATED THEMSELVES LIKE GARBAGE. SANCTUS DETRIUS REDIVIVUS
Subject(s): ANGER; ITALY; WISHES; ITALIANS;
He sang @3I'm talking through a hat that isn't mine@1. It's
Jackson Pollock's, given him by Pollock's brother, Charles,
and there is blood on the rim, his own not Pollock's. This talisman
was lost in a bar somewhere, anywhere in America, and is
worn now by a dump-picker who found it among the garbage.
Appropriate! As both of them, one so great and the other so
small, treated themselves like garbage. @3sanctus detrius redivivus@1



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