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The page fuses adolescent ritual, pagan invocation, and Pittsburgh geography into a strange, rough ceremonial image.

Its energy comes from collision: `Teen Agers,` `Oden,` a `Pittsburgh cellar,` and an `Arizona / Reservation` do not belong naturally together, which is exactly why the fragment has force. The page feels like a note toward subculture, myth, and invented ceremony rather than a finished descriptive scene.

Four lines, and arguably the conceptual epigraph for the whole book: `Teen Agers worshiping / Oden in a Pittsburgh cellar / in the form of an Arizona / Reservation to tumble`. Pagan, urban, and indigenous imagery collapsed into one basement scene.