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A dark, shadow grey moth     rests along the grim hue of brick,     its spattered orange cream underwings scream a Halloween defiance     to the bleariness of stone and city.     And before each fold of its wings,     there rests beyond all the pale fire     and din of a thousand slow eyed     empires, feeling the seethe     of their existence spent     in a fidgeting cauldron     where mediocrity camps     with her dangerous throne.

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