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SETTINGS, BOUNDARIES, AND OUR MODERN DAY CASTE SYSTEMS, THEN YOU CAN FEEL THE GLORY AND PAIN FROM THE DAYS OF KINGS IN AFRICA TO THE NEW KINGS OF THE MEDIA.
    There is something about fur, isn’t there?
    I remember the coats with fur-lined hoods, and my fashionable sister, and her faux fur,
    how it touched her face and hair.
    I thought of how it would gather dust,
finely.
    Because I think, often, how to keep a clean house.
    In our house, when we moved in, we found old hat boxes with old hats, one leopard, like
    Audrey Hepburn wore.
    Then there are my ideas of Russia, all the white skin of the characters in Tolstoy’s novels.
    (Because I guess it is racial.) How often they would have touched fur.
    Sometimes I cry that Anna Karenina isn’t real.
    Other times I remember she never abandoned her son.
There was no son.
    Kanye mentioned the kings in Africa, and yes, them, too. Wearing cheetah, leopard, lion.
    Mouths collapsed as if they once sung.
    And Kanye designed fox fur backpacks for his fashion line, and the women carried them,
    and the word, luxury, appeared over and over.
    A fox neck wrap is 500 dollars, and if I wore only that,
I would be a sexy woman.
    A shitty hunter, but a sexy woman.
Maybe not a mother at all.
    I think about the fox that lives in the yards behind ours, and the neighbors, fearing for
    their small dogs. My son, crawling in the grass.
    An animal without skin is
a stranger animal.
    As a girl, I drew women with foxes around their necks. One woman, her hand stroking
    the red tail, her head distracted, the fox’s head arranged toward her breast.
    The fox’s eye, a jewel?

I NO LONGER HAVE TO LOOK UP DATES LIKE YOUR BIRTHDAY, JUNE 8, 1977
    You held your 30th birthday party at a Louis Vuitton store. Fitting
for Kon the Louis Vuitton Don, a name
that follows your 2000 mixtape, your first.
    People magazine waited outside your party, as I imagine
they always do. And you told them,
    I’m in my 20s as we speak right now, but at midnight, I’ll be 30. I’m already 30 in Japan and London and everywhere else.
    Inside, Pharrell of The Neptunes and N.E.R.D., an overweight Mariah Carey,
    Common, of course, and Rihanna in a wig.
And a cake, at least three feet long, with your signature bear on it,
his wild-colored eyes.
    Another cake too, with your name spelled wrong, Kayne. Who doesn’t know you?
    After the party, 30,000 dollars of merchandise was missing. So says Hip Hop Crunch.
    More people who want to write about you. The hundreds
    of reviewers on Amazon, the commenters on YouTube, the bloggers, the magazines,
    the poet.
    And now you’re 37.

KANYE RAPS, “   
   ,” PART 2
    Achilles.
    I couldn’t see it before
because I’m Achilles.
    Apollo, god of poetry,
light, music, and plague,
    stuck an arrow in my heel.
    Except
not yet.
    We’re not at the war’s end.
There is time still
    to utter and croon.

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THE UNENDING WORLD THAT CONNECTS US: NOTES AND FURTHER READING
    â€œâ€˜Runaway’ Premieres in Los Angeles on October 18, 2010”: See Kanye West on Ellen .
    â€œHa Ha Hum”: See West’s “Barry Bonds.”
    â€œHeartbreak”: See 808s & Heartbreak as Noah’s Valentine’s Day present for me in 2009.
    â€œHeartbreak”: See a $466 fee for a quote. See www.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/kanye_west .
    â€œCon Moto”: See West interviewed by MTV in 2005. See him speak out against gay bashing, saying, “Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates. And I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, ‘Yo, stop it.’ ”
    â€œJesus Walks”: See, between the two verses, the fourth line. See Channel Zero TV.
    â€œMythic”: See creation myths. See October 23, 2002.
    â€œGod Created Night and It Was Night”: See Genesis.
    â€œThe Fallible Face”: See Ethics and Infinity and Totality and Infinity by Emmanuel