AT THE ENCORE CAFE with your roast potatoes and lentil soup drinking your water the russian sailors come their cold hair surrounds their faces the way fate tastes to them is written there lying on a sailor's chest as if to warm it a tattooed icon stares how strange it is that fate has made you live in indiana how beautiful faces are looking out at the world how certain is it that the gaps life has or makes can be closed later
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