Hum and black clatter, car
lights glistening like
beads

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blotted

Strangeness of voyages, the sorrow of repetition

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Steel rails gleaming slick, diverging and
converging

In
perfect parallel, not touching

Alongside perfectly and endless, not knowing

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The dull yellow of the columns, the gray of the faces

This knife this
mirror this light this rain

My breath on your mouth whispering a name

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These houses forgotten these murders in the alleys

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caul like the mouth of a child

As huge planes drift in and out of the horizon

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And the words we have spoken measure our distance

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the time that has held us since

The splintered lights streaming behind us like a
wake