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Super-lucid citadels
Blare against the crystal blue,
Their coastguard windows buttoned up
And belfries standing in phalanx
Quartz antennae twist like ribbons
High above the city hive,
A lid of masts and majesty,
An earth of bone and bleach
Ultra-silence bridles verse
And fans the flags of peace,
The silk from prying spiders, burnt
Before it hits the streets
But when the crust and pillars face
A Cimmerians dawn,
The meek will lift their heads and know
Not to bow again
Cloaked cryptographers; they wait
With holstered aerosols
In arms, in subways, in the dark
They wait for us to speak
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