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a river runs through a ghostly town soaked clay red with the blood of the earth, the land is marked with tire tracks like an addict's elbow crease sweating oil and electrical wire, fields tilled with the claws of a paper beast sprout telephone poles and generations of debt amongst indigo coffee beans, rotting tin roofs striped with rust creak folklore in the pouring rain, muddied palms clinging to trust on mala beads are stung with poisoned ink leaked from shrines golden and winking, an ornate temple carves god sharp into a clouded sky its steeple piercing his hands shards of bone spilling ash onto upturned foreheads, sun scorches unsuspecting soil and it cries exhaust fumes, the sputtering song of a motorbike is answered by the howl of a stray mutt in an alleyway reverberating pleas to a clenched fist, an unremitting flame sweeps ruin across leaf barren trees wind choking on smoke coughing up skeletons, and the planet heaves and the planet heaves weezing on humanity's delirious daydreams
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM UTC
tin roofs and manmade poison
a river runs through a ghostly town soaked clay red with the blood of the earth, the land is marked with tire tracks like an addict's elbow crease sweating oil and electrical wire, fields tilled with the claws of a paper beast sprout telephone poles and generations of debt amongst indigo coffee beans, rotting tin roofs striped with rust creak folklore in the pouring rain, muddied palms clinging to trust on mala beads are stung with poisoned ink leaked from shrines golden and winking, an ornate temple carves god sharp into a clouded sky its steeple piercing his hands shards of bone spilling ash onto upturned foreheads, sun scorches unsuspecting soil and it cries exhaust fumes, the sputtering song of a motorbike is answered by the howl of a stray mutt in an alleyway reverberating pleas to a clenched fist, an unremitting flame sweeps ruin across leaf barren trees wind choking on smoke coughing up skeletons, and the planet heaves and the planet heaves weezing on humanity's delirious daydreams
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM UTC
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