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A Tree Grows Live in Brooklyn (A Live Recording at On Air Fest 2020)

The Paris Review

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The Merchant's Question About the War

The merchant was forming a question about the war, but the woman continued. Years ago, the village midwife taught one woman to poison her angry-fisted husband by dipping fly paper in his drink As she said this, she ran her hand down his belly, his thigh Then another woman, whose father refused to let her marry and claimed her as his own wife The few good men who remained were in such high demand so lusted after that they grew arrogant They became terrible and selfish and lazy And soon they too were poisoned. We send them off When their voices drop, it's time to goThey don't return It's the only way they know We send them to the army of the

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