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I Woke Before I Woke Last Night - page 3

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Look, I said.

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I held out my left arm. There were red veins, which I hadn't noticed before,
running down from my shoulder;
marble of wine roots.

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Small black scales began to appear on my lower arm,
breathed into shape
like mushrooms out of trees.

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They made the dry sound that rain makes, when it hits the thin roof that shelters you, or radio static purr, or eggs cracking.

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A woman with grey hair stepped forward,
in a panic, mischievous.

She blew /shfphhhoo/ on my arm.

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The scales disappeared: fell off,
or were worms back under the skin.

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No, I said, and I was afraid. Wait.
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If this ain't pure art, the word has no meaning.