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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Ty3YnWN80&ab_channel=sonikkudammit

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There, 

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You see?

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That right there -

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In the space between

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Those slabs of concrete,

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And tucked beneath

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That rotting tarp.

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Can you see the rise and fall

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Of yon inimitable, and shallow breathing?

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Can you see ye, that nailed warning?

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A painted in charcoal, hanging

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Albatross about the neck:

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"Abandon all hope

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In all its yearning, 

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All its dreams of fancy,

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All its poise, all its picturesque

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And in all its spinning pirouette."

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Do you see it there?

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Laying, ever-after

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And evermore?

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That's that little slice of hell,

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Schism,

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A shard of doom -

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That

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Is the chasm

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In all its depth -

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That is entirety in its despair,

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That is the gravity of resignation

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To the pull of pre-scheduled nightmare -

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That is a cage that's absent bars,

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That's a place of no escape,

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That is surrender to the dark -

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To suffocate, asphyxiate -

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Beneath a mantua in crumpled layer

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And perpetuity, in folded tarp.

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Author's Note

*Revisit tightrope parody*