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bis face an oiled mirror
a piston in a shoe factory
where bis llrJther sits cross-legged
S11rJking a Camel
a truc1c driver growing big
betweenher legs
thinking of asphalt
think of asphalt

pick up my pen
put it down
pi cJc up my pen
put it down
I'm making a shoe, mother!
I'm driving a truck, friend!

I was a carpenter shoe ~er

son of Jesus Blake, anvil. .
these words shipped from shoe factory
to this University
in Carton marked: "alchemist! security guard! magician!"

I picJc up 1I1g pen.
I put downmy pen.

-Jesse Glass, Jr.

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