_____ The fire in Jasons' back yard was burning low.
"*She* can't put two and two together," Unnie said.
Almost everyone laughed.
I reached for a beer,
but it was Gunter's turn to _____ go out for beer,
and he had forgotten.

I remembered hackers collapsing in laughter
at a who window failure
while plates of vegetables laced with Masala sauce
festered at their elbows.

I remembered the switching device
that Gunter had spent several weeks constructing.
Small red green lights flashed on its surface
as he laid it in my hands.
It only took me several seconds to break it.

_____"Oh Amarillo what you want my baby for?"

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