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A GRAVE by TIMOTHY LIU

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First Line: HE WAS CRYING. SOMEBODY GET HIS MOTHER

He was crying. @3Somebody get his mother.@1
All day the exhumed bodies in trash bags.

Men, women, dogs. Even a parakeet
under a cross made of popsicle sticks

with a name written on it. Not the meat.
The bones the children leave after eating.


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org



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