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Here where everyone forgets everything,
including where they are
or what they are fighting to remember,
I can't help recalling the childhood afternoon
that I was bloodied in a baseball game
by a kid who wanted to murder me,
and how my father, who was streetwise
to the world, a former Golden Gloves champ
in the lightweight division in west Chicago,
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