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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{protection}
  jessy randall


Silver dress, Dorothy’s shoes.
Disco ball. Robot.
Curse all you like –
you can’t hurt us.

Curse harder! Tin man,
android, fountain sculpture.
Rainbows on notebooks,
metallic paper.

What doesn’t kill us
makes us stronger.
So strong nothing
penetrates. Two mirrors.

No survivors.