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Flowers and worms sunk in the soil
everyone kept in the dark tonight.
You need to roughen the edges
we soften in the twilight.

There are birds in the sewage,
spores in the grass, crows in the trees.
Winter is still and silent
nothing moves in the river.

Rank stench of rotting leaves
everyone kept in the dark tonight
stamped down unwittingly
the boot on human face

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boom-boomerang

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follow this line
& it will circle you.
at night all colours
are one as inside you.
waiting for the cold light
to open us up. your mouth
dances sparklers & your eyes
thousands of never-ending lines.
but they curl to be back with you.
like arrows they bend & arc
around a rocky old moon.
they haven't room
to escape you
or the dark.

look, here's you coming back

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