beneath veneers and gallows' grins 

rests 

An underworld of chiding hymns 

breaths 

taken jagged between razor hail

depths 

of pulses oscillating there.

an ocean of parapets

surging to a wave so big

you could live a lifetime before it breaks 

these cherished, rooftop conversations 

champions of these ides of summer 

buried in that 3am sincerity 

fou...

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