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A Well Deserved Break

water towers sag in rusted sunlight under the weight of rain & time held up by raw fear of embarrassment & two determined steel bars i offer myself, like an aquatic Atlas to bear the load just long enough for them to catch their breath or get a well earned massage on their knotted, sun-wrecked, iron spines

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