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La Bestia’s a picture book but not for kids
florid drawings
midnight black
jungle green
a fountain spurting blood where an arm was meant to be
the freight train rides on molten snakes
passengers are kids from Honduras and Salvador
death-riders piled on freighter cars
scowling wind darts babies down
in distance storms
mountains of slag and boiling seas
on the last page of the oversize book
barb-wire gates and “Fin”
the other side has ice-cream streets
the United States.