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Every night you scan the news,
the black and white, the red, the bruise
that cannot lighten when backlit.
The battery does not relent.
You made your bed, now this mistake—
device does not a vice unmake.
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Every night you scan the news,
the black and white, the red, the bruise
that cannot lighten when backlit.
The battery does not relent.
You made your bed, now this mistake—
device does not a vice unmake.
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