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Light watches
as sovereign darkness takes over
there were few who saw
human hands jutting from the plucking of a rose
the skin and the skilled operator have funnel-shaped sucking mouths

in some sheltered nook with a reproducing ribbon
he alters the natural pattern all over their bodies
he changes it with man-made butterfly-shaped soft skeletons

the father falls to his knees, pleading brilliant white light
a television theater ground fog swirls around him
until the dot disappears inert girders and pillars
landing near the islands of
as man adjusts
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