Desert Hideout

Glaring sun blinds me
Lilliput figure hastening
Optimizing invisibility 

Disguised by grains of sand
Hitting my eye 
Visual assault 

All to scuttle sideways 
Robes flailing
Vacuum vortex shimmering 

Cleopatra screaming 
Asp fang flashing 
History repeating 

So transforms the desert
Page after page
Of the book of mirages 

Slow zoom out
Watching the pyramids
Hiding the truth
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