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Blood

Everything red has some of its properties

carnelian alizarin a lake like other lakes

translucent and fugitive

After muskets armorers made gates and hardware

Running for our lives became track & field

Civility among the warlike never caught on

as did bathing in flags and fabrications

ritually dipping an arrow to remind the shaft

of its purpose  

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