Seventeen

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Seventeen pounds heavy in the bass
Exactly ten feet from the danger sign.
Vandals had less chaos-lust than these
Ecstatic children of our mores and malls.
Now they tumble, burning, molten steel
To their molds like white-hot waterfalls,
Empty, plunging hearts too sheer to freeze
Each time the lights go on, the worlds align,
No wall of sound across one's ravaged face.

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Audio and Video Music: Roads That Burned Our Boots. By Jahzzar.
Performed by Jahzzar at the Free Music Archive
under an Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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