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Now that the Summer of Love has become the moss of tunnels	A
And the shadowy mouths of tunnels all the tunnels lead into the city	B
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I'm going to put the one largely forgotten swaying figure of Ediesto Huerta	C
Right in front of you so you can watch him swamp fruit	D
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Out of an orchard in the heat of an August afternoon I'm going to let you	E
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Keep your eyes on him as he lifts swings fifty pound boxes of late	F
Elberta peaches up to me where I'm standing on a flatbed trailer breathing in	G
Tractor exhaust so thick it bends the air bends things seen through it	H
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So that they seem to swim through the air	I
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It is a lousy job no one has to do it we do it	H
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We do it so that I can show you even what isn't there	I
What's hidden And signed by Time itself And set spinning	J
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And is only a spider after all with its net waiting for what falls	K
For what flies into it ages turns gray in a matter of minutes The web	L
Is nothing's blueprint bleached by the sun whitened by it it's what's left	M
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After we've vanished after we become what falls apart when anyone	N
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Touches it eyelash collarbone dissolving into air time touching	J
The boxes we are wrapped in like gifts splintering them	O
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Into wood again at the edge of a wood	P
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Black Widow is a name no one ever tinkered with or tried to change	Q
If you turn her on her back you can see the blood red hourglass figure	R
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She carries on her belly	B
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Small as the design of a pirate I saw once on a tab of blotter acid	S
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Before I took half of it a friend took the other then the two of us	T
Walked down to the empty post office beside the lake to look	U
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For some reason at the wanted posters We liked a little drama	C
In the ordinary then Now a spider's enough	V
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And this one in the legend she inhabits is famous the male dies	W
She eats its head after the eggs are fertilized	X
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It's the hourglass on her belly I remember the way the figure of it	H
Figure eight of Time Infinity looked like something designed	Y
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Etched or embossed upon the slick undershell the way there was	Z
The first time I saw it a stillness in the pattern that was not	A2
The stillness of the leaves or the stillness of the sky over the leaves	B2
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After the male dies she goes off the eggs	C2
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Live in the fraying sail	D2
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Of an abandoned web strung up in the corner of a picking box or beneath	E2
Some slowly yellowing grape leaf among hundreds of other	R
Leaves in autumn the eggs smaller than the o in this typescript	A2
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Or a handwritten apostrophe in ink	F2
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What do they represent but emptiness some gold camp settlement	A2
In the Sierras swept clean by smallpox wind	A2
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Canal school with its three rooms its bell the rope you rang it with	G2
And no one there in the empty sunlight ring after ring echo	H2
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It magnifies I can't explain it	A2
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Piedra Conejo Parlier Stars towns blown fire wind	A2
Deneb Altair invisible kindling nothing above nothing	J
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It magnifies I can't explain it	A2
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Expressionless spinster carrying Time's signature preserved signed	A2
In blood hidden beneath you you move two steps	I2
To the right hold still then one step to the left	A2
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And hold still again motionless as the web you wait in	G
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Motionless as the story you wait in inhabit but did not spin	G
And did not repeat You wait in the beehive hairdo of the girl	J2
Sitting across from me in class wait in your eggs	C2
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Wait in the hair the girl teases sprays once more at recess	K2
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Lipstick heels tight sweater leather anklet	A2
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The story has no point but stillness itself absence in a school desk	L2
The hacked and scratched names visible in the varnished wood	A2
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No one there the bell with its ring after ring echo	H2
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In class I remember she would look back at me with a gaze deeper	R
Than calm blanker than a pond's scummed motionless surface	T
Beneath which there was nothing nothing taking the shape of someone	N
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Who had already drowned but could not die so sat in class	M2
Because she had to because that was the law	N2
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Mrs Avery went on on at the blackboard so we could know	H2
Who Magellan Vizcaino had been or sometimes she would make	O2
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The boy who spoke only Spanish read from a book	U
Watch him as he used his forefinger to point at each syllable	P2
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He would read read mispronounce stumble over go on	Q2
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And this isn't much of a story either but it's one I know	H2
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One afternoon in August two black widow spiders bit Ediesto Huerta	A2
He killed them both went on working	J
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Went on swinging the boxes up to me In a few minutes the sweat	A2
Bathed his face until it glistened still he went on working	J
And when I asked him to stop he would not instead	A2
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Seemed to begin to dance slowly in the rhythms of the work	R2
Swing heft turning back for another box then	S2
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Swing heft turning back again And within a half hour or so	H2
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Without him resting once but merely swinging box after box	T2
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Of peaches up to me in the heat the fever broke	U2
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In the middle of turning away again he stopped dancing	J
He stopped working He seemed to be listening to something then	S2
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He passed out fell flat on his back It looked as if he had gone to sleep	V2
For a moment I let the idling tractor sputter die by the time	W2
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I reached him he had awakened in the next moment his face	X2
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Began twitching his arms legs danced to something without music	Y2
And then stiffened his jaws clenched his eyes fluttered open	N
And turned a pure white I made a stick from a peach limb tore	Z2
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The leaves shoots off it stuck it between his teeth	E2
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As I heard one was supposed to in this way almost	A2
Killed him by suffocation so took the stick out threw it away	A3
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And later lifted him by the one arm he extended to me pulled him up onto	A2
The bed of the trailer He dangled his legs off the rear of it	A2
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We sat there saying nothing	J
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It was so quiet we could hear the birds around us in the trees	B3
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And then he turned to me addressing me in a name as old as childhood	A2
Said 'Hey Cowboy you wanna cigarette '	-
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In the story no one can remember whether it was car theft or burglary	B
But in fact Ediesto Huerta was tried convicted of something so afterward	A2
Became motionless silent in the web spun around him by misfortune	N
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In the penitentiary the lights stay on forever	R
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Cell after cell after cell they call their names out caught in time	W2
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Ring after ring echo	H2
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In the story the girl always dies of spider bites	C3
When in fact she disappeared by breaking into the jagged pieces of glass	M2
Littering the roadsides glinting in the empty light that shines there	I
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All we are is representation what we appear to be are are not	A2
And representation is all we remember	R
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Something hesitating looking back caught for a moment	A2
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God in the design on a spider's belly standing for time infinity	B
Looks back looks back just once then never again	S2
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We go without a trace I am thinking We go there's no one there	I
No one to meet us on the long drive lined with orange trees	B3
Cypresses the bleaching fronds of palm trees	B3
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And though the town is still there when I return to it when I'm gone	D3
The track is empty beside the station the station is boarded up	E3
Boarded over the town is overgrown with leaves with weeds	F3
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Tall as windowsills window glass out dark inside the shops	G3
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The classrooms school are gone the bell the rope	H3
To ring it with the boy reading form the book forefinger	R
On a syllable he can't pronounce stumbles over again again	S2
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All we are is representation what we are are not	A2
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Clear then going dark again all we are	I3
Is the design or insignia that misrepresents what we are stays	J3
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Behind looks back at us without expression empty road in sunlight	A2
I once drove in a ' Jimmy truck with three tons of fruit	A2
On it the flooring beneath the	A2