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  Empty

  by Laura Mullen

  Huge crystalline cylinders emerge from the water

  The future

  Where do they come from the King gushes these talking fish

  Show me at once

  We see the writer buried under a collapsing mountain of scribbled-over

  papers

  While ink blurts from an overturned bottle

  Speech is silver the King mutters

  Silence is

  They discover a fabulous ancient city

  Black lake

  Flag of smoke

  Where we turned to look

  Skulls, bats, stars, spirals, lightning bolts

  Words spoken in anger

  Flowers for sarcasm

  The sequence continued to work in references to the brevity of life

  Garlands of flowers

  Stars signaling physical impact

  They discover a fabulous ancient city

  Under the water

  None of the inhabitants

  'Be reasonable . . .'

  Increasingly faint trace of inked

  Flowers delicate

  After that

  Cat catch

  The decree

  Eradicate

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