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a needy baby, babies--bottles of milk-
......salacious stories of espionage,

.................................war

to sculpt heroes out of skid row slats:
apply the beacon of courage here--

......no,

here

where the sun’s penumbra
secretes images dark, febrile

the tenderest myopia;
........a paschal lamb


*

give us
our daily
victuals