It should be smooth, unblemished, newly remade Exulting in the air like a prisoner released But the years have eroded into a gulley Water stripped it to the corrugated rock A chasm across which Abraham cannot reach A firebreak, to keep the damage from spreading, Flaming again. And what should be freshly tactile, Supersensitive, Feels a prosthetic Grafted on Dead as cold metal.
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