come alive moonlight
        black as affliction
        work hard as slavery
        the nature of cursed words
        unanxious to be heard
        like a violent soldier
        who speaks having
        been taught the ultimate
        skill of violence.
        that soldier arranges
        his sunglasses against
        the morning sun because
        his eyes have gone
        spontaneous berserk
        like butterflies
        springing forth from
        cocoons of night.

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