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Decree no. 2015
Roy Marshall
Calm as a mass of Kevlar helmets assembled beneath a flag
or stacked heat-seeking heads awaiting discharge
we shall pursue the following goals;
if deemed applicable, the slowest runner shall be caught,
his or her head, blown off. Monkeys may be mown from trees,
collaterally. A beetle might be all that survives
to crawl through ash on a hospital floor. The street
will be supplied with ignition until it flames, brandy-blue,
the school draped in drifts of smoke that shift
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