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Broken handles cracked cornices ended cities

Jeremiah was a committee breathed aleph breath:

stand behind this line, backend blown out tongue!

How do committeemen say, bulldozed into the sea?

 

Aim in this crushed context, their job in a word

to push rubble into airshape, restart knowing.

Overnight be exile, over again, all over

razed to the ground not once, twice, centuries.

 

Would you say Jordie they’re the first book

distress signals from inside the nowhere

I can’t breathe, spoke in their own version?

 

Centuries to unchoke, to unbroke buildings

letters of tears flames rags eyes closing

heat and force wouldn’t you say, curling fragments.