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As the blacktop blisters and crusts,
As the skyscrapers abrade the ground,
As the automobiles mold in the morning dew,
As the airplanes fold like peeled tin foil in a garbage can,
As the waters blacken and evaporate to osmose from the filth,
As the air chokes on itself to breathe,
As the plants gasp for the sun that should peak through polluted clouds,
As the animals become wide-eyed and mouthed and chested,
As the people unpopulate the crowded elevators that bring them down
Into the apartment complex of oblivion,
Will we know why?

poem by Tim Stensloff
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