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1ti:ndscreen shattered
and an eternity ago someone was saying
about steel congealing ore beneath
pre-cambrian millenial Earth before erupting,
mined, shaped, manufactured into vintage 1965
speeding van through a Ho.lderness night.
Windscreen shattered
and street-lights in turn explode across
each crack like frozen tapestry,
flashing - flashing - flashing
like stroboscope - fast.
flashing
flashing
flashing
slower as brakes arrest motion.
Windscreen shattered
and it doesn 1t matter • • •
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