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The lift

By Sergei Mutsenko

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the lift got awayagainthe clock set to the End of the Worldis tuning carelesslyApocalypsenot worse than the last hit of Metallicadescend My Godschism of the Late Autumnlet us haveat least foreversince the transferof the bottle contentinto the throatis relatedto the loss of shapeinnocence, disintegrationof  selflove got awayagainthe skin shed by my loverthe stockingsare hanging down from the stooping chairone shouldn’t cross Rubiconwith such a loadbut first there will be lightthere will be a bunch of dwarfsrolling out the blanket of the Paradise Garden there will be a Beautiful Princein disguisegoing in roundsin the armoured stockingsin the enchanted circle* Written October 4th, 2001 © on Oct 04 2001 08:36 AM PST   0 • 8

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"the lift got awayagainthe clock set to the End of the Worldis tuning carelesslyApocalypsenot worse than the last hit of Metallicadescend My Godschism of the Late Autumnlet us haveat least foreversince the transferof the bottle contentinto the throatis relatedto the loss of shapeinnocence, disintegrationof  selflove got awayagainthe skin shed by my loverthe stockingsare hanging down from the stooping chairone shouldn’t cross Rubiconwith such a loadbut first there will be lightthere will be a bunch of dwarfsrolling out the blanket of the Paradise Garden there will be a Beautiful Princein disguisegoing in roundsin the armoured stockingsin the enchanted circle*..."

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