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… with their blood I dyed the mountain red as red wool,
while the ravines and torrents swallowed the rest of them [ ] – Ashurnasirpal II
I must face them & show the other
animals my power
I will not be dumb like the
fossil
but wrench open the meteorite jaw
and with its determinism
my temple will sing.
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