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You spooled out lessons

like an older sister:

Make your waist like this,

indicating curve

Make your eyes like this,

indicating blue

Make your face

make your skin

make your clever, clever hands,

make them this way,

indicating civilized,

indicating soft, your own,

your freckled breast linen-bound

The old vixens, with their scabby,

claws,