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revels

each of the bullets

returns to Earth

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New Year’s

my neighbors make sure

their guns still work

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last day of the year

filled with tiny apples

a leafless tree

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it takes a day

but he makes it

the beetle

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the dogs tumble

over him and miss

the beetle

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New Year’s Eve

crawling on the floor

the beetle is back

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the stillness

before New Year’s

we oil the hinges

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in the blue lamplight

of the rest stop

people asleep in cars

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you explain

to a stranger

the hierarchy of forks

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