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"I suppose I should tell you
I've finally been fired
from the globe factory.
I'd been putting beaches
in North Dakota
for two months.
Before that, it was mountains.
When I was on map duty,
I put a fairground
next to our neighborhood.
I thought it would help.
I could have spent
an entire week there
painting your face.
Remember when
I took you to see Kansas City?
That was Omaha. (85)

"I couldn't sleep
so I dug a tunnel
in my backyard.

At the end
was a country western bar.
I've been visiting

religiously since.
It's the loneliest place
I've ever been.

Instead of a jukebox,
there is an aquarium
but I can't

find any of the fish.
I sit in the bar's
darkest corner

with my beers
and wear a lampshade.
Crack some walnuts.

Crack some walnuts
with my new claw. (18-19)