special edition
the eyes were magically manufactured
in a basement lab in downtown atlanta
the limbs arrived by boat from taiwan
african dwarf goats from ghana
provided the hair
& presumably the stuffing
the face itself
came from clay of the coastal plains
of the gulf of mexico
each molded into shape
& painted by hand
by one hundred chosen artists
may two thousand twenty-four
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