Twenty

How It Starts

Unwashed new jeans
Wild rabbit sausage
Tomatoes from graft
A pig from New Jersey

Swimming in the Nile
Sodium nitrite
A dog or a cat or a fox or a bat
Shipments of coal

A classroom parakeet
Shipments of coal
Super absorbent tampons
Carrots

Sex, with or without condoms
Pesticides sprayed by a playground
Felt, goat hair or otherwise
A dripping faucet in a nursery

Mexican style soft cheese
Apple danishes
Copper IUDs
The forest, Zaire or Connecticut