The Dictators
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a mixture of blood and body, a penetrating
petal t brings nausea.
Bet palms the graves are full
of ruined bones, of speectles.
te dictator is talking
op s, gold braid, and collars.
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cross t times
and join the dead voices
and ths freshly buried.
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red has grown scale on scale,
bloly er of the swamp,
full of ooze and silence