Richard Brautigan

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The Double-Bed Dream Gallows

Driving through hot brushy country the late autumn, I saw a hawk crucified on a barbed-wire fence. I guess as a kind of advertisement to other hawks, saying from the pages of a leading women?s magazine, ?She?s beautiful, but burn all the maps to your body. I?m not here of my own choosing.?