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The card you don't want to draw.

"NEMESIS

The strong-kneed woman found it,
a kernel under her tongue, while speaking
with her daughter, her echo.

It flowed through hearts,
as water flows downhill,
and transmuted into lightning, and
revived when it rained again.

It was bought, it was sold
from people to people
for pelts,
swords and lances,
for pison, olive oil and petrol
and for a sheep frozen
in copper, silver and gold,

and it was buried alive in prayer."

--Martin Camaj, Selected Poetry (tr Leonard Fox, 1990)

Mysterious gases.

"Laforgue's friends procured him a post as reader to the Empress Augusta of Germany; and, falling under the spell of German philosophy, he brought its jargon into his verse, contributing thereby to Symbolism perhaps the one element of obscurity which it had lacked." --Axel's Castle

Dead Pixel Party.