<div class="line">A tiresome journey</div>
<div class="line">four tires and under</div>
<div class="line">the oil pan</div>
<div class="line">gum we’d drawn</div>
<div class="line">from the ashtray</div>
<div class="line">mintless and stiff</div>
<div class="line">still it did the job</div>
<div class="line">and the tires</div>
<div class="line">did their jolly</div>
<div class="line">revolving and though</div>
<div class="line">there was no</div>
<div class="line">rain the windshield</div>
<div class="line">wipers lay alert</div>
<div class="line">and stiff</div>
<div class="line">good boy</div>
<div class="line">we said whenever</div>
<div class="line">we passed a dog.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/KildegaardReport.mp3"></audio></figure>

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<div class="line">My son calls to tell me</div>
<div class="line">he held the two rabbits</div>
<div class="line">he’d raised and was</div>
<div class="line">about to kill close</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">to his chest, their hearts</div>
<div class="line">racing, his heart full</div>
<div class="line">of the blood of necessity</div>
<div class="line">and qualm, his heart</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">filled with a song</div>
<div class="line">of holy lullaby</div>
<div class="line">to calm the creatures,</div>
<div class="line">their warm bodies pulsing</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">against his, and I think,</div>
<div class="line">as he falls silent on the phone,</div>
<div class="line">that he will, some day—I’m</div>
<div class="line">sure of it—make a good father.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/KildegaardAllurement.mp3"></audio></figure>

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