Content warning:Poem, Contaminating Nature, Contaminating Self, Destiny Can Bite Rocks

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Failure State Gates
August 16, 2025

in the way we stole the painted rocks
that we might unnatural horrors
before returning them

we took the sword from the stone
where it was doing nature
no good whatsoever

its properties would not wash off
stone fractured, hands scarlet
breaking out in viziers

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