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Failed Sestina.

      "polymarket"

the bulky equipage · of the quagmire guards
      the burned road
   rattles our clank
some lit screen is · leering like luck
i found but forgotten · one click further
      & people
   peeling away
someone no longer · in the drivethrough window
empty space · on the spoiled shelf
      soured laughter
   belongs elsewhere
a crown crushed · by the gray of the sky

The US is no longer a liberal democracy.

“ 'They chose to stay as an act of resistance,' said Daderko. 'They were surrounded by violence and death on Jersey. They saw people starving in the streets, they saw people tortured, they saw executions.' " —Katie White via

Zeiss has even been to the moon, where its lenses remain to this day, lying face up in their Hasselblads on the lunar floor.