chief of lethal vessel                 gambling
thinking               -#----\ /----#- on the molded song
commander owns                |
the alien rigging             |
                              |
                              +-#---------------------+
                              |                       |
                              #                       |
                              |                       |
                    . . . . . + . . . .               |
                   .                   .              |
                  .  drawn by rights    .             |
                  .  to hold the dance   .            |
                  .  against imagination  .           |
                  .  slipping solitary     .          |
                  .          |              .         |
                  .          #               .        |
                  .          |               .        |
                  .          |               .        |
                  .          +-+             .        |
                  .          | |             .        |
                  .            |             .        |
                  .            |             .        |
                  .            #             .        |
                  .            |             .        |
                  .    crowd themselves      .        |
                   .   to clean approaching  .        |
                    .  desert of control    .         |
                     .                     .          |
                      . . . . . . . . . . .           |
                                                      |
                                                      |
                                                      +-#----------+
                                                      |            |
                                                      |            |
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .             |            |
 .                                       .            |            |
.  sounding                               .           |            |
.  the constantly   -#----\ /              .          |            |
.  diminishing bones       |                .         |            |
 .                         |                 .        |            |
  .                        |                  .       |            |
   .                       #                   .      |            |
    .                      |                    .     |            |
     .                  erosion                  .    |            |
      .                 of the story spirit      .    |            |
       .                executes its messengers  .    |            |
        .                                       .     |            |
         . . . . . . . . . . + . . . . . . . . .      |            |
                             |                        |            |
                             #                        |            |
                             |                        |            |
                             +-#----------------------+            |
                             |                                     |
                             |                                     |
instant spiral column        |        licensed rotary dream        |
of climbers           -#----/ \----#- by repeated                  |
to inter tradition                    force of habit               |
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                                                                   |
                                                                   |
                                                                   /
                               dragged behind     -#---------------
                               statistical wheels                  \
                                                                   |
                                                                   |
                                                                   |
                                                                   #
                                                                   |
                                                          hoping for horizon
                                                          through the wetness
                                                          of suspicion chamber
                                                          spoken of as proper


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