how the west was
	(already won:  women's varsity ball)
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	an openhearted mistake:  i:  caught in the sling of the conv
	by the wiling locals:  being coy:  being friendly:  being funny:

	well...have...you...had...gizzard:  and what's that:  potato...
	wheresit from:  lessee...the...box...says...washington...kennewick.
	oh.

	back to gizzard:  try it:  it's good:  darth vadered by a blonde
	ponytail:  y.o.u...w.i.l.l...e.a.t...t.h.e...g.i.z.z.ardor
	t.h.e...e.m.p.i.r.e...will...strike...backagain...so...deep...fried
	draw...

	yowza hmmm okay.  kristie:  this tastes sorta like plastic:
	if i imagine so myself:  you know:  regular food.
	laughs all around.

	entrails entail cutouts:  kristie postcard-collages:  my revenge
	cheerfully taken up as art project:  last year:  under varsity spell
	tall stunnin' goodlooker lettered in basketball in volleyball tanned
	unpretentious attentive openhanded natural western winsome winning
	kristie's too much on the draw:  i dare tell all this all her:
	behind her perfect back.  her stated aim:  sports medicine.

	mrs. mother stops by with t.b.yearbook pictures -- on her way from
	work:  glasgow:  we mock-auction which onesies whodo the best.
	we talk schools we talk poetry.  mrs. mother reads about indonesia.

	selamat in reciprocity for hospitality and a means of future trade
	may our trade winds and migrations allow it.

	my fast drive:  next:  first:  through green tea low shadows into:
	the petaled mountain sunset:  into the glitter night range country:
	united states of america:  route two:  through havre shelby cut bank

	over the sleeping grassy pony-dotted hilly blackfeet's nofoothills
	over to the pink-pink wet-wet of predawn:  a national geo photo
	in a minimart gas station glass:  open:  i read about you as a kid:
	in polish:

	blackfeet in browning montana:  where...the...prairie...meets...
	the...glaciers...the rockies...the...international...peace...park...

	back:  mailed in nashua:  the color of it all:  card now a letter:
	a cutout:  a spark:  hangs pinned:  a cherished wampum:  on the
	corkboard:  in our office:  ours is a very good sports medicine:
	school:  women's volleyball:  basketball:  too:

	but really kristie:  u2 must taste for the first time 2:
	vietnamese.  i deal.  veggies hi.  nothing deepfried.
	catfish in the claypot's

	wild.


		Marek Lugowski
		4 September 1997
		Chicago, Illinois