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Entombed in chrome, steel, and speed, Humanity slays the night With headlights, Banshee engines screaming V8 defiance, High-octane ghosts in the exhausts Bellowing spectral smoke, A motorized mausoleum Driving away from nature And slipping into darkness In the midnight heart Of a graveyard city.
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Jun 20, 2013
Jun 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM UTC
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Entombed in chrome, steel, and speed, Humanity slays the night With headlights, Banshee engines screaming V8 defiance, High-octane ghosts in the exhausts Bellowing spectral smoke, A motorized mausoleum Driving away from nature And slipping into darkness In the midnight heart Of a graveyard city.
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Jun 20, 2013
Jun 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM UTC
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