Gunter and I framed the entrance to the barn. _____
It smelled of cow shit and old hay.

A white pickup truck pulled up in the dry dust
Three men got out of the truck, carrying paper bags.
I had never seen any of them before.

They walked by us wordlessly
and entered the first stall where hundreds of
_____old slow internal modems
lay scattered on a metal-strapped, rectangular bale of hay.
Gunter's eyes strayed theatrically to the third man's ass.
I extinguished my cigarette.

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