Postapocalypse

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There was a street once fine,

     Now weary, cracked, and beat.

     It crumbled in the wrathful heat,

Was crooked as a broken spine.


At this I frowned, scorned, turned my back—

     For all we build meets time's cruel claw!—

     When in that street I squinted, saw

A lily sprouting in the crack.

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