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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrUCxEoYBw&ab_channel=ZuraKadagidze

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There are dark stains 

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Where her eyes should be -

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Roadside runoff befit with

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Rubber tread tracks and 

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Taillight dilation.

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There's a look in them -

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A distinctive expression -

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They read like 

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She's been waiting for Godot 

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And Beckett's told her she's found him.

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There's a twilight there 

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That shouldn't be - 

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No more a hollow than

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A broken glass would be empty -

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Shattered, rather than left as a cavity.

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There are black clouds 

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Where her eyes used to be -

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An oil spill and the gulf of Mexico,

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The burst freighter and lost cargo,

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Dark stains, drainage tanks and
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Slick immiscibility, 

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Lining toxicity over the surface of her sea;

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While sinking to the seafloor -

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The opaque oil and telltale occultation,

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Of depth, and of the severity,

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Of an all too well the hidden, 

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Circulating, and corrosive tragedy.

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Author's Note

Fixed.

Reviews

[Dave Brown]

she is a mess and things are not getting better