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Created on: April 18, 2008
Carbon Copies:
Landscapes collide against an opaque dream.
Trees like another as are the rocks and stream.
Carbon copies; a faux nature; diluted an incomplete.
As face cries out to face in simplicities duplicate need.
Mimeographed hearts listen, and then still their beat.
Replications are over done.
Opaque is the dream.
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