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                by Dara Arikian  



    Sticky black death    yields

             Home under siege

                   Takes  prisoners   and

            Rapes memory

Grows darker when the green
                              bearer of material things    
             is consumed.

                                  Wages

                               war on the body   and

                                         Leaves its indelible mark  :

   A map of intentions along the length of a limb.