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where is that love you wrapped up so carefully and stuffed into drawer upon drawer. did it grow testicles and conduct police round-ups at election times? did it fly madly at the sun without an ounce of gravity? did it chain-smoke cigarillos and mutter self-righteously? did it speak truth to power from the floor of a white room? did it wither alone unnoticed until it was too late to take it back out into the light? how do you know if it died there or not, or were you paying attention? where are the kids? rodeo robs? that was five hours ago! you left the kids at rodeo robs for five hours? five hours! never should have known again. couldn't stand waiting.