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Barker Apologizes for Rewriting History
First, your point about the changes in Cheyenne. It started with fewer forts
in the Territories. And yes, now, Lakota amble through our leasehold
casino with cups of nickels (feathered edges, no Buffaloes). You were also
right about that time on the island – the Spaniards on the mainland just
exhausted
themselves shooting orchids from the upper limbs. Perhaps, I didn’t wear them
in my hair the day I intimated commitment, but I’m sure about the Dutch
avoiding the Tulip Boom. Blame my trauma on the Battle for Casper. I love
your Tagalog, the eyeshadow on your epicanthic fold. I never meant that crack
about the Russian on your mother’s side. I’ll wash your feet in rose-water,
rearrange
the dates of glaciation. Re: our trip to Little America – a lot of tuxes, but
not
the same as matrimony. I see the flaw in my logic, though I contend
Lady Tasman’s appeal was mainly whalebone. I have learned to love
your charcoal ceremony and the clouds will never again remind me of any train
ride
that ends in impromptu conjugation. I’m a changed man, except my adamance
that twice bitten, forever vegetarian. Not that your lips aren’t a writ in the
making:
rack of lamb, rack of lamb. God, I wish they’d invented agnostics. Somebody
hit the slots downstairs. The French take back Agincourt and you in that
puma-skin.
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