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. night streets and scars of light                       scarves of light moving subtle bustles  of shadowed light carvings of royal light    robes of velvet light                         make out expressionist doorways strobes of light   fink and fit in protest         coding behind enemy lines captured light  fires colourful snakes about in flaring curved science tubes                       flagging the bartering night   flogging the                                                   urban night we've made apparition in honour of daylight and out of the theatre fear                        of our own bogged nature   synthetic ghosts of light                                  charge away ghosts electronic noises   scare away the horrifying lull of the dead                                       (a dead we don't believe in)           twenty four seven behaviour    to busy away the very spirits we have hungered and to plot against     all that unnecessary sleep business
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Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM UTC
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. night streets and scars of light                       scarves of light moving subtle bustles  of shadowed light carvings of royal light    robes of velvet light                         make out expressionist doorways strobes of light   fink and fit in protest         coding behind enemy lines captured light  fires colourful snakes about in flaring curved science tubes                       flagging the bartering night   flogging the                                                   urban night we've made apparition in honour of daylight and out of the theatre fear                        of our own bogged nature   synthetic ghosts of light                                  charge away ghosts electronic noises   scare away the horrifying lull of the dead                                       (a dead we don't believe in)           twenty four seven behaviour    to busy away the very spirits we have hungered and to plot against     all that unnecessary sleep business
sept2025 battering to make our signs/symbols importance purpose mark EARLIER VERSION : night streets and scars of light/scarves of light/moving/bustles of shadow light/carvings of light/captured light firing snakes in tubes/battering our colours and signs/flagging the night/lights alive again in the city night/we've made ghosts in honour of daylight/and out/of the theatre fear of our own nature/ghosts to chase away ghosts/noises to scare away the dead/even though we longer believe in the dead/twenty four seven activity/to busy away the spirits we’ve angered/and plot against/all that unnecessary sleep business
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Sep 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM UTC
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