_____ Several disemboweled 256's
were still exposed on the kitchen table.
The white cardbox box with "made in china"
and a lengthy serial number stamped crookedly on its side
had not been there in the morning.

The files themselves appeared undisturbed,
but the malevolent collection of letters _____
no longer lay on top of my "to be filed" pile.
Like the collection of passports
that Gunter kept inside a thai silk pillow
that lay as if carelessly thrown
in the backseat of his silver mercedes,
these letters were ______of questionable authenticity.

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