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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 ##¤†††^...
.^~††¤#### GPS COORDINATES. ####¤††~^.
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.^~††¤#### A DANGEROUS GAME: THE ROUNDABOUT IS ####¤††~^.
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.....^~~†# 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 #†~~~.....
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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 ####¤††~^.
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