young man your shoulders ought be up

quartz from the factory
    ( swept up in a blanket by
      an old lady, maybe 120 years
      old and working here since
      tuberculosis was inoculated during
      post war modernity )
weighted the boy’s faith, hooking
the glare in his eye by a rural barb
and mashing his arches

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