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    HANG DOGG from Noose and Hook, by Lynn Emanuel, © 2010. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Published in Sampsonia Way by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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    HANG DOGG from Noose and Hook, by Lynn Emanuel, © 2010. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Published in Sampsonia Way by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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    Hang Dogg, A Poem by Lynn Emmanuel

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    HANG DOGG from Noose and Hook, by Lynn Emanuel, © 2010. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Published in Sampsonia Way by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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    Hang Dogg (A courtroom. Dogg is arrested and on trial.) The court askt, wuz i guiltee uf Indigence? Derangement? Identitee?

    Gender? Wuz i in the abstract or particular, A bitch? A witch? A lush? R yew now or haf yew been Medicated? Evicted? Wasted? Wuz i Mexican? Engleash speaker? guiltee uf pessimism in regards to the alfabet? An where wuz yew on the nite in question? The court askt Wuz it my fault the Warr wuz lost? Wuz i not the Dogg uf Warr?

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    If not whut kind uf dogg? How many fingers iz we holdin up? R yew guiltee uf crossin the border? R yew a boarder? How much money dew yew haf in yr pockets? Where r yr pockets? R yew that dogg the countree iz goin to? Iz that yew? They sd: Dogg Yew iz toast. Guiltee uf loiterin wit intent to mope.

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