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SPORTS DESK
STILL RUNNING

One might be excused a burst of somewhat-racist surprise at the sight of Travis Durelle Laster carefully peeling the skin from his chicken and de-greasing each piece on a napkin. But leaving behind the biscuits at the Tik-Tok Lunch-N-Munch? A culinary sin, regardless of creed or color.

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6AM. Polk County. The sun grinds over the edge
of the phosphate plants. Concrete
is everywhere, everywhere that is not grey
is black asphalt, already oozing in the heat

of the phosphate plants. Concrete
neon-decked bodega, pickups pulling in
on the black asphalt, already oozing in the heat.
Brown men pile out of the beds, heading in

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