In the back room, rooms the back

They always come to find them, 

hurricane-sheltered in lines too crass

for comment or pose.

Month upon month of hardback,

they toppled down the mile-long steps, to get up

only at the cheater's whistle, whip-crack;

plead for mercy and witnessed complex

competition, prizes and incentives

(massacre a punctuality for the losers)

now l...

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