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Helen of Troy Calls Her Sister – Poetry Daily

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cly, you remember when it was us and the boys and mom and dad and we all drove up to chincoteague for the summer and the car just —collapsed— —just broke down, and dad took the hood up and put his head in the engine and hollered for mom to keep turning the key and the sky— —like fire— —record heat, air-con kaput with the rest and the sun crushing down like a mouthful of lemon peels, like the inside of a deer's gut— —and castor wouldn't— —wouldn't get out of the car, he was afraid of the snakes, you remember the snakes, buckets of them wiggling around the trees— —rising up— —leaping up to strike, and i said momma don't you see what's happening, but that's when dad all punked on motor oil snatched u

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