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“my heart is an autocrat”

my heart is an autocrat
ach! how it runs rampant
obscuring the world

it silences the fountains
and flies up to the eighth floor
quicker than a pigeon

then from the parapet
it gazes for hours
delighting in tiny people
basking in its greatness

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