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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 ##@¤%%/~..
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...~/%%¤@# 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 #@¤%%/~...
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....~/%%¤@ Cars Are Ejected Into The Greens. Ships @¤%%/~....
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.......~/% Spellmakers Will Not Come Home. It %/~.......
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.....~/%%¤ It, But The Cause Is Just. I Sneak Back ¤%%/~.....
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