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Steerage to a place
Sunset, John McClane
A dip in your lagoon
A drink from your fountain
The fat will keep you burning
Rictus grin, delineated grid
Detached from the sacred
The occult function of sound
A sentry making its rounds
An ode to the west
Where I overslept
Here lies the Minotaur
Nostril soot, lungs are charred
Nasty correspondences
Penitentiary, your priorities
Hard enameled sea, scuzzy
Template Titanic, mud into cities
Warehoused and sent into a tizzy
Ancient mariner, waiting for daddy
A hull barnacle, get your arms around it
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Shore up defense, pepper them with sticklers
Spaceborn flavor and the luddites on the ground
Still a screaming memory, meteor burn
Wade through the sludge of persimmon
A city succubus
Street level forever
Thoracic and buoyant
Solution-oriented
Tip of the spear, ill-equipped
Trading barbs, lunatic fringe
Telemetry suggests concord grapes on the skyline
Circuitous communication, structures sylphlike
Vestigial traits and concessions, bodies on ice
Star-studded boneyards and arcana, no vital signs
Awning is jellified
Incur the wrath, trampled herd
Kiss the crater, watch them squirm
Touch the hot stove, lesson learned
Perimeter of the jealously guarded stockpile
Battering ram against an army of trunk and spine
Muscular proponents and lunkheads, what will transpire
The pain migrates like Typhoid Mary, travel in style
Garbled speech and vacant stare
A hungry tiger, ocean liner, nothing for miles
Hollow, medicated glaze
Needles in fruit, poisoned article, a perceived slight
Somewhere between gift shops on a redirected flight
And ensuing nausea
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Seedbed, How Insulting
05:35
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Procedural, enforcing aroma
Satin and steel, facet of God
Torch job, black votive
Twin axles grind
Tin ear, purple prose
Slovenly, princess to sully your space
Smoothing over that bumpy road again
Dry kindling, gravel starts to slip away
Yawning gap returns, dispirited mileage
A walking footnote, a fitting tribute
Among the living, eased into passing
Glorified body, retrieved for study
Exclusive province, euphoric recall
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Brindle Mainstay
04:10
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Is it shatterproof, my poor ticker
Not much time to lose
Am a firebrand, prepossessing
Is it limerence, from a chrysalis
Mysticism
No inheritance
Is it testament, the defective
Made to honor him
In a straitjacket
A paste, a good taste, an apron
Arbiter clot
Can you prettify, second fiddle
Not enough screen time
Exit the breadline, stretch the margins
What componentry, at the old slag heap
Weird embankments, gather your bearings
Steamroller frontier
Stargazing arches
Child bearer, silk scarves
Meet a key benchmark
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Wax Tapir
03:07
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From parsnips to parsecs
Wax tapir always there
This feeling that we share
Curdled froth hides the scent
Compressed emotionality
In the form of a screed
Some legend, some hearsay
Fetish reality
Bespangled by chorines
Oinker, that wick burned out
Eavesdropper stowaway
Lopsided windowpane
Lapping the cathedral
A rival prospector
Turned off by the bluster
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The Above Agency
04:47
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A ball of nerves
A sadistic purge
Orbit coverture
A unique thatch
Just one of the craft
Impenetrable
Crab holocaust
Quahog and the sloth
A simian sauce
A major loss
The above agency
Vanquishing beam
Tremendous veneer
Conflict seer
A boutique journal
A culture gulch
Jumbled, nettlesome
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Procurement
05:09
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I want to be a better person
I am in stasis until then
The circumstances exigent
Procurement
The bloody corner
The code is to make it pronounced
Douse the killing room
Come with me if you want to live
My head examined
Cybernetic credentials scanned
These blanched mechanics
Chants of worshipers holding hands
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Slowpoke
05:03
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Approach anxiety
A gravitational pull
Ambling along the plane
Arrested by unseen, latent forces
An auditorium
Shoehorn the creature into this old place
Learns on a different shaft
Infernal tinkering, the sturgeon king
Its teeth its armament
Annexing romancer
A vestibule for you
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