a gaze that pierces veils
of iron curtain tragedy
the weight of painkillers 
it all presses in like a phalanx of soviet states.

rolling thunder, blurred and blistered
shame as dull as anything else
anti-focus and step-sisters
ground up and bottled by the pound.

it looks like it's made of marble
but really it's just convincing glass
hewed by two-sided buyers
protesting your front doo...

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