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Flames dancing dancing dancing flames dancing
Their shadows Javanese hand puppets
Jumping to sirens no chimes no gongs
Burnished joists shift and settle
Becoming trapped as bedouins housed
Embers vehemous they are a witch
Spit shoot crackle
Not like a New Year sky
And the stranglehold of a ghoul black smoke


Stationary as sculptures glowing dolls
swollen twins deceased increased heat inflated
To be charred relics of  a fleeting history
carbonated crushed ammonite children
crumbling effigies mocked idols dead dead dead.