=========== Dark Ice ===========

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	Let's stop and eat an apple here--fair peel, Yellow Delicious is my favorite-- Feels ripe. I brought a flask of coffee, too.

80	Let's eat an apple and be fortunate. A Frenchman hears, on record, real Piaf; Another, weary, stoops to tie his shoes; Elsewhere a voice interprets, in the bath, "The complex genitalia of the blues;" Her husband's out-coat, mittens, shirt--My love!-- The underwear comes off, boots take too long, --And outside in the cold, key touches lock. A child picks up a phone and hears "No. Not..." Someone is vacuuming the second tier.	Titles Part I Notes I Part II Notes II Part III Notes III Part IV Notes IV Part V Notes V Part VI Notes VI Part VII Notes VII Part VIII Notes VIII Part IX Notes IX Part X Notes X Part XI Notes XI Part XII Notes XII ©, Acknowledgments The Author

90	An adolescent girl says "Thanks a lot." I crunch: my breath-steam makes you disappear. Who isn't tangent to some other's plot? Wet boots print blanks across the ghostly snow.


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