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		“ Los Cerdos Sostienen la Aurora.” —Pablo Neruda When I had grace and beauty and four fine hooves, better than a devil’s, quite frankly, the way things tapered to a point was not unlike the flamenco’s sudden strike of heel on barren ground. And did I not run like driving rain after long drought to the trough, and did I not feed shoulder to shoulder with the greater and lesser of my kind, as if the spell of hunger made us sister and brother. And when the day grew warm and red, and when the scent of the world rose and gave the brain direction and will enough to move this bulk, my body, from barn to wallow, from ruined field to shadow of cedars, was I not among the pillars of diligence and mirth that helped the sun that grazed the world, and every morning in goodness grew.
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