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Lyn Lifshin



getting the goods



³In recent months, according to reports from Thailand published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, murdered infants have been used to transport heroin across the border from Thailand to Malasia²

A wind blowing through
dark elephant grass
a blood sun over the
rice fields a man

holds an infant underwater,
black hair snakes the
child gurgles then
doesnıt a plastic rattle

bobs on the water like a
head before the water goes
from blood to wet bark
the child is slit

emptied out like a trout
or a hen stuffed taut
and plump with small
bags of heroin

And before the moon is
a pale grape in the
musky nught a woman paid
as well as the dead

childıs mother will wrap
the corpse in a shawl
hug it close seeming to
smoothe the damp
hair into place as if
snuggling a sleeping
baby getting the
goods over the border



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