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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 4

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May 13, 2026
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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 4

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

So decrepit is this house: its windows,
filth-crusted, spider-cracked, or frames vacant,
its roof moss-throttled and impinged with holes,
a door so addled by rampant fungus
it flaps like salvage from a scuttled ship.
Abode of death, yet someone lingers here,
the ligh…

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