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AIDREW DARLINGTON

Shock explosion. night
Windscreen shattered.
Jig-saw zig-zagging the Holderness

into stars

into luminous shards of legend.

Wind-scream. night.
windscreenSha1:tered
as crazy van makes a

bullet of 1DetalilC%oss the Holderness

Insane tides of Chemicals S'Wa.y.i,nq
awash in my head.

Windscreen shattered

and a second ago sClDeane was talking

•its all ~. History. Eupire.

The hol'--llSt 'I"G,._~.: - • l.es loeni tribesmen,
........... • ....u:t: o....L.U ~S,
• • tion
~ lIDngrel centuries of industrta.l.i.Za
and J.lerVerted ~sm.

History allarolmd, us has exploded

andfraCJmented in the apocaJ.ypse.

Like SciencePict.i.on. Its real, it happened.
We are the stlrViVors of hi.sto.ry.

Crawling out of the SOciological zubble d

glad to he alive now that the dust has settie
and the air is c.le.ar,

~g .._ in crazy ~..""".
Ws~e gahrte-setheei:ngSUarvr.oi.VunOdrs the ruins 0.£ lost generati.

Qf pX'opbe:ts and Los'

Windscreen Shattered.
Shock eJcploSion.

Radio screaaing

"Gonna COllect YOUrlove in an orgone box,

haby, and rape the WOrld wi. til rai.nbows.'

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