Goines On: Okie blows

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The morning after Mrs. Goines read to him from The Dreamt Land (which is about the state of water in California), Goines knew what to call them when he had applied a thumb to each nostril and blown his nose: Okie blows.
    He was out back taking up their now-unused rock light fixtures and collecting them in the utility corner to await their deciding where to create a sort of museum, or “rock light plaza,” when he simply had to blow his nose. Using a thumb was by far the most convenient way to accomplish it.