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4 June 2015

1:00 PM

4 June 2015

1:00 PM

In eastern Congo years ago on a road logged into a hill
I drove or was driven one evening to see pygmies
who claimed they were being eaten. This was possible.
I’d met a woman with my name who’d watched the fire
on which her arm was cooked and then devoured.
The pygmies turned out to be lying and this isn’t about pygmies.




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