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11.

Divine Blood

 

Orpheus has divine blood.
He's shot in the thigh in Denver on the fourth of July in a drive-by.
He limps two blocks to the `Y'.
In the bath he watches the mouth of the would expel the bullet and seal itself
with a little burst of bubbles like a mollusc withdrawing into its fort.
If he cut his throat would song gush out?
Divine blood of music.
Eurydice was music.