Industrial serpent slithers

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Industrial serpent slithers

slides along the sliding hill,

creeps along the creeping climb,

drags his heavy metric tons,

and seeps into my mind.

But I can taste my euphemism.

He blares his bleating horn

and blasts past the flashing lights,

red like his lover's eyes

on dry desert nights.

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