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[PaanKu]

where were you when your brita started turning
water into blood when the first frogs were falling like
david caruso's career or lice on public schools when
the flies were so many that you couldn't see your
cattle dying for the boils on your tongue or the hail
like meteors showering locusts onto your leopard-
print sofas in the sudden dark and where were you

where were you when they sent out the memo about
how blood, just a little blood swabbed on your door,
a sliver of blood which is as plentiful as filtered water,
will keep death from sneaking inside like a bandit
and stealing the breath out of your first son's mouth?