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Neanderthalic Antics: Cantos XXV-XXVIII

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Jun 09, 2026
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Neanderthalic Antics: Cantos XXV-XXVIII

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

“I, I, I...” gut-throated the wasteland king,
As spasmed he on the throne, gripped in fits,
And slack his flesh had drooped, a substance wan
And dead, depleted and blank and shadowed
That sunken face, with eyes bulging upwards
Like glassy stones, w…

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