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From the moment you first sensed
the madness of war
or the one time you checked
your body to make sure
the whole machine was still there,
there was trouble standing
in the highest channels,
a whole orchestra stood blackened
for no reason,
stabbing blunt metals
into the twitching atmosphere
proclaiming their superiority to emptiness,
icing the taverns with
pale thought like thieves,
tugging kiosk mid-belly
of burning canoe to sell waffles.
Frost of days, that passed
with every warning