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Two young ducklings swam
In a river bathed with red
A river of blood
Their pitch silhouettes glancing off the water
As shadows, as shapes.
Across stones a foul bird crowed
Mangled and stretched
Sprouting limbs of tarantula
Laying in waste and smelling of rot
Bathed in red.
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