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Artwork on pages 18-27.

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Artworks on pages 308-309; 328-329.

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This item is a scroll that contains a poem written by Wong and represented with drawings of American Sign Language signs for letters instead of with the Latin alphabet.

The poem reads:

Nutzboy claimed he never washed
cause soap makes you soft
even poured salt down
my back once to prove it
his body had the strong odor
of cypress and axle grease
and whenever he'd ripened
I'd get drunk off the smell
One look at his eyes and you just

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This item is a scroll that contains a poem written by Wong and represented with drawings of American Sign Language signs for letters instead of with the Latin alphabet.

The poem, titled "Rainbow Brain," reads:

A true story
Once upon a time
there was this woman named Kacey
Who lived in a trailor
Across from the Shop-rite
who used to dye the hair of all the
Department-store beauty-queens
who used to ride on the floats in the Orange bowl parades
she used to dye them orange and purple and green and glitter
that but orange bowl was only once a year
so the rest of the time she would color her own her own hair
all kinds of colors
first she would dye it purple
then she'd strip it and dye it green
and then strip it and then do a whole
Rainbow
Trip on it.
This went on
day in and day out
year after year
till finally one day she just died
At the autopsy the corner
discovered that the dye
had seeped down through her scalp
and dyed her brain
Every imaginable
color

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These pieces show drawings of hands making American Sign Language signs for letters of the alphabet.