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that woman says god has big soft eyes and eyelashes too and they are prettier than anything you ever saw and she is in
the parking lot where the yo-yo man used to walk his sleeper and his blue-eyed dog but that woman says that is man-magic and she’s got something better and
last saturday shauna got the blue ribbon on her at the fair and in the paper they called her the first place cow and we all think about it when that woman says
god has big titties that hang down under heavy round like wheels and shauna says that school bus is where she took off matty’s clothes and under heavy he moved like a
snake which is how she moved cause matty’s knees got bloodied by the loose springs in the seats but she is soft-tongued licked them both clean and the teacher says
cows walk on the serpentine ramp on the way down to the slaughterhouse. and shauna says he was not meant to feel anything anyway and
shauna says she still sees the yo-yo man sometimes he comes around her house and he still rocks his blue-eyed baby and he flings his iron whip and shauna watches
with her ribbon in the soft meat of her chest and the yo-yo man says she is
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and jane says she saw rocking and mel says she heard lowing and shauna climbs down off the serpentine bus and we all see her shoulders her smooth poll her wet hide and a long
time from now she still feels them. the bus seat and the blue dog biting at her meat and in the parking lot all she sees is kids playing skinny animals but that’s cause she is on the bus when
that woman says god walks on all fours and you can tell just by the shape of them the sacred ones. the cows. she says imagine you have big soft bodies and
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Maya Rose is a writer and educator from Michigan. Her work lately focuses on growing up -- how the worlds we live in as young people are full of strange delusions and equally strange truths. She recommends the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.