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EATING THE PIG by DONALD HALL

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First Line: TWELVE PEOPLE, MOST OF US STRANGERS, STAND IN A ROOM
Last Line: Opened your skin together / and tore your body apart, and took it / into our bodies
Subject(s): PIGS; FOOD & EATING; BOARS; HOGS;

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