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To perform a spell of expulsion

I would begin peeling an onion,

prettily placing each skin apart

like glaucoma-ed coronas

or abalone shards.

Stolen novel; please report.

Then, sugaring the pot,

I would cry tears,

96 or more,

into any jug or gourd

until it was just as full as not,

keep it in some dry, hiding place

and in the evaporating time

I would place an onion layer, one

each on my eyes

then shuffle the rest,

read them like a deck

and play solitaire.

- Kat Isacson

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