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Sent: November 24, 7:35 pm

 

Subject: Tools to repair

 

To take on contours we used dirty words in other languages.

 

Tsunami, radiator, fenestra, windows just one disaster after another. Don’t stay
in California too long. The Pacific's prevention measures, buoys that monitor
these

 

earthquakes. If the ocean overtakes us, veil our thoughts in skirts because
this could happen here.

 

When an eye mask loosens, some drapery, long rosary might need tools to
repair, escape or a battering

 

ram unless there is space for pressure, warping. At least one attempt to forecast despite blinds.

 

Is a home safer? A spector, a spill, a cabinet of foodstuffs, that creaking, a
porch sinking, sliding, siding or brick, a Bible in the nightstand, radon; I could
not discern the true matter from the false.