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AFTER IKKYU: 11 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: AT HARD LUCK RANCH THE TEA IS HOT
Last Line: TELLS ME THE SAME OLD STORY.

At Hard Luck Ranch the tea is hot,
the sky's dark blue. Behind me
the jaguar skin from the jaguar
who died so long ago from a bullet
while perched on a calf's back
tells me the same old story.



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