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Article: Hole.(Poem)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 8, 2003
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Hole
`I'll be quick," he says, and is.
To speak to the group you're required to "qualify,"
so he begins: "We found the bottom of, stupid and dug us a hole."
He says at the end he was runnin on empty.
He says even in the joint they didn't have no trouble getting
product, and once when they couldn't, why, a bunch of them shot up
whatever, fools
that they all was--even lighter fluid, mayonnaise.
And then some died, or started floppin around "like chickens
after you axe them." (He was raised a farm kid,
never mind the crude blue stupid tattoos.)
Just like he was sayin,
the bottom of stupid. The bottom: that was it,
and ...