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A flood in the walls
pipes scrubbed rough by falling pebbles
little moons from the roof turned inward
you'll be thrown out by angels
and find your bed on the other side of the planet

Light chalked its impure territory
in graphs around you
took too long from gas giants to get here
there's a love in oceans of boiling metal
that guards their islands
kept green by heat
fertile by what can never give birth

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