Stinking refuges of gas

blinding the sun with your metal sheets

round and round you go intact to

supply the tiny pipes and holes

where flames can perform their hot air act.

Men on bikes passed by your flanks

for their gasworks jobs they gave you thanks

and once with every rise and fall

you were the biggest of them all.

But now your lungs are solid seized

and the sun s...

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