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XAVIER. There it was, his proper name,
As it should be, on the file’s label.
Verifying all his facts of birth—
Items all in order, as he thought.
Except, huh, what’s this replicated
Record? Though it seems at first a pure

Xerox copy, something’s not the same:
According to this section of the table…
Very odd. A different time of birth,
Isn’t it? “To Mr. X: For starters, you ought
Examine birth files. –Y,” the note had stated.
Random, he’d judged, but now he was not so sure.

[7:00 / naming / acrostic / eye / Department of Records]