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.....~††£§  a secret roundabout: in what used to be §£††~.....
....~††£§#  brazil or china. fenced in, secluded by #§£††~....
...~††£§##  special plants growing unusually tall.  ##§£††~...
..~††£§###    spelled in by purposeful symmetry,    ###§£††~..
...~††£§##     roads like symbols, aligned with     ##§£††~...
....~††£§#  ley lines. dialed in with well-rounded  #§£††~....
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...~††£§##   a dangerous game: the roundabout is    ##§£††~...
....~††£§#   important to some large constellation  #§£††~....
.....~††£§      of intents and bureaucracies.       §£††~.....
....~††£§# governments and companies are creatures  #§£††~....
...~††£§##     in a way. yet people sneak small     ##§£††~...
..~††£§###   between their claws, and hide in the   ###§£††~..
...~††£§##    roadside bushes. they wait there.     ##§£††~...
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.....~††£§   vehicles approach; the game is on -    §£††~.....
....~††£§#   quickly the people assemble in well    #§£††~....
...~††£§##  practiced geometries. their bodies make ##§£††~...
..~††£§###  counter-spells on the asphalt. traffic  ###§£††~..
...~††£§##   is instantly diverted, flows in sick   ##§£††~...
....~††£§#  ways, like dogs let loose. symmetry is  #§£††~....
.....~††£§                   lost.                  §£††~.....
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...~††£§##  cars are ejected into the greens. ships ##§£††~...
..~††£§###     collide. there are many kinds of     ###§£††~..
...~††£§##      casualties, on both sides. the      ##§£††~...
....~††£§#    spellmakers will not come home. it    #§£††~....
.....~††£§   sickens me, this physical reality of   §£††~.....
....~††£§# it, but the cause is just. i sneak back  #§£††~....
...~††£§##      over the fense, heading south.      ##§£††~...
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