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Five Alarm Chili l cant taste it anymore said Doctor Sterling Lafayette Davis the sweet and grouchy 92-year-old dentist from the Piney Woods in Northeast Texas the forest where all the bluebirds flew when they deserted Maine flying down the magenta line from Kittery to Doctor Daviss eucalyptus tree like a stolen blue symphony in 1953- theyd have looked beautiful over his white porcelain driveway if hed had time to do more than joke about it-thats right- the yanked teeth of black ladies and veterans from 1912 to 1960 to provide that sleepy crunch beneath the tires of your rented car- but he only laughed about it never did it as the birds sang in the balmy air around his white cottage the pretty lattice and the evergreens going on for miles arpeggios of bluebirds like halfnotes on the telephone wires and all the while his taste buds feeling more and more like slammed out salesmen allthat red hot Mexican barbecue sauce standing sadly behind his closed screen doors knocking on the distant side of zing. t30 l