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Ambergris City

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Felt no pain against the water,     the tea-cup sky was a turquoise colour in its wrath     illuminating ambergris city in spot checks below.     The sperm whale population was in decline.     Little or nothing remained of former commitments.     A bitter legacy consumed itself in half-truths     against the sound of upturned lies.     Winding alleys come as the conscience of well plaid cities.     are open zippers revealing the indecent poor.     The fire hydrant lives of cellar inhabitants strain these urinals     for wretches sniffing out the edge of completed walls.     Gray nuisances, the men in asbestos overalls finding their way     through the apricot fire of dark, eclipse Park Plazas with the     stately elegance of empty dinner dishes or red trash cans     against indentured snow.

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