Brahms Lullaby

Nobody knows

how animal paws came into my handbag

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how the Brahms lullaby escaped Novak’s tennis racquet

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how waves throw salt and sand at golden froth coloring the sky

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how my grandmother who parted the Red Sea sent her husband to jail

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how the pedophile prostituting marmalade in India garage became a jazz song

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how my Dad became the daughter of a math problem that mountains couldn’t solve