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Flashpoems, cont'd

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41.	r/n/d/r/p/s
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42.	she lets down her hair. waterfall
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43.	All summer she brought me gardens in her skirt.
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44.	Roadkill armadillo: ants load up, scurry dismantling armor mechanic chefs cart snippets in a dilly.
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45.	Earth asleep, winter comes: snowflakes: 10 million eyelids.
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46.	4 in the morning and the Marlboro man's still smoking by the dead gas pumps, lights like comets burning over his head.
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47.	red Mustang neon sunflowers Stuckey's trading post corn here's a poem: pumpjacks nod me home.
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48.	Delepane. Ama-ni-huella, Dios tata itom Jicori. Delepane, delepane, delepane. Gone.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of 9 books of fiction, nonficiton and poetry. His newest book is The Devil's Highway, nonfiction, published by Little, Brown in 2004.

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