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Today Is Shopping Day

Russell Erwin

Jun 01 2008

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She turns to close the door,
this slow shuffling hut,
a snuffling, burrowing animal
hunched already to wear
the glancing insolence of a street,
hungry not for her.
And, as you too have guessed,
her mouth is a rosy blotch,
applied as carefully as she can.

Russell Erwin

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