relief and a suckerpunch exasperation fading to white tumultuous fury calming to hatred the instant after time runs out silence in a room after a scream the time it takes for two dice to hit the table and roll the hazy surreality you feel in between awake and asleep the death of a hobo the serenity of a fading light ionized superheated air after a lightning blast then an insurrection builds itself in the catalytic destruction of peace the south surges and the general is replaced all quiet along the potomac
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