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Prick of time
the tinderbox / a bell

whose chime delays
along the path of sparks. A fuse / that

striking, sounds a roar
& trips alarms
& sets crazed flocks of Birds of Paradise aloft.
Our cause

is negligence, or cancer of the will.

/ /

[The world is gorgeous,
how it tears its flesh apart

at your slightest analysis.]