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Body and Soul C.I.S.

By the time an American
body asserts itself, sprouts
hair where bare was

And blood @ inopportune
times – blood and hair,
bound for evidence lockers, often

The American mind already
handled – ungloved – by one
loco parentis after another

Actual parents resume to make
bank, after all, baby stuff
so dear these days, dear

Grace Slick – tuneful and succinct.

h.a.m.

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