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DECEMBER 2017
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FUTURE

​MICHAEL ONOFREY
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– man lives in desert – tree surgeon dumps cuttings off – man separates, sorts, cuts, and etc., and makes a business of it – woman (artist) shows up

– man is long-limbed – woman is slim and beautiful – no, woman is a little pudgy but still beautiful – woman sketches the man, who has veins trellising his forearms – does the man have tattoos – does the woman have tattoos - how old is the man – how old is the woman – why’d she come out there in the first place

Imagine: nothing but desert, call it the Mojave: pebbled, grayish, dull creosote colonies here and there, a mobile home (singlewide), graded dirt road leading to the singlewide – the dumping of trees and bush-cuttings takes place beyond the singlewide – the man has a backhoe for burying what he can’t salvage: leaves, twigs, shrubbery – a shed with a couple of saws to make planks or 2x4s or slats or whatever – naturally sundried wood, not oven-dried, which some people want, ​


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