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Snapshot
a spider tries to anchor its web
in a rivulet of rainwater
draining
near the boy who cracks
wild nuts
with his machete
who doesn’t deal with men just pockets
and their contents however banal
like this
snapshot of a girl
with a
weary expression
crossing a pontoon bridge of felled trunks
to the village where her mother pounds
a pestle in
a mortar
for the
illicit powder
tourists will sniff in high-rise hotels
(‘low tariffs, views of virgin jungle’)
with
European cuisine
plus
refrigerated beer
the boy can almost taste as he spits
and polishes the machete blade
watching
red ants congregate
on the
corpse with this snapshot
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