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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 8

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May 13, 2026
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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 8

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

At the Institute of Technology,
like a scouring wind, across a landscape
of dead grass, over rusted steel girders
and bolts holding glass walls and vault-like doors,
the sound of Black Metal music swept on.
Antennas vibrated, windows rattled,
and the nocturnal animal…

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