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Volume 1, Issue 2, 2007

   
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Preparing Phoenix for Dinner
Christopher Citro

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We threw open our door
and it walked right into the kitchen.

We threw open the oven.
It stepped inside.

We turned it on to 450
and we heard a cooing and murmurs.

When we eat
we'll lose our tongues.

Then we'll grow new tongues,
better ones.
 

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