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Good news from Open Books:

Dear Paul y SPLAB,

Good news today on the McClure book front. Our rep sent e-mail confirming we will have thirty copies of Mysteriosos to sell at the reading. I’m not sure when we’ll be getting them– sometime twixt now and then. Happy day!

until soon,

John (Marshall)

MYSTERIOSO  O N E

LOVELY.  LOVELY AND ANCIENT AND FOXED

with rusty brown spots as the oldest

IMMORTAL PRINCESS,

or the Bodhisattva Kwannon as a simpering

and infinitely generous

OLD WHORE.

How surprised we are at what passes

in past and future

for the scent of apples.

I

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S

T

know more about the skin and muscles

and the wall of stars two billion light years long;

I

T

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S

all

QUICK

! ! !