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AFTER IKKYU: 39 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: IN THE NEXT INSTALLMENT I'LL GIVE YOU CRAZY HORSE AND ANNE FRANK
Last Line: ON A THREE-BY-FIVE CARD IF WE WEREN'T DRUNK ON OUR OWN BLOOD.
Subject(s): IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS;

In the next installment I'll give you Crazy Horse and Anne Frank,
their conversation as recorded by Matthew of Gospel fame,
who was wont, as all scriveners, to add a bit of this and that.
God is terse. The earth's proper scripture could be carried
on a three-by-five card if we weren't drunk on our own blood.



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