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1                                              2 A simian behind                                           She sticks out her tongue with matted hair and molding ear,                              at the glass. the cloven back and starved buttocks                           Brave, not like the boy of a bleached street mother,                             hanging back out of glass distance belly swelling, pregnant for the nth time.                           with only a half smile of fear.                                               Ape-jawed face scrunched Wrinkled knuckles                                   and eyes desultory on five