I pee¹ led an army

of inDD²ustrial plastic

hann³ds

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recycled waste

lannd fiLLed with nnight

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skinned baby’s grave

yards nnoo head

stoned

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DDank cannals

spiLLed weathered flesh

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CCardboard mmouths

entommbed

seed annd dust

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CCaRRy

high-way smoke

stacks

violent air

railroad parks

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swing⁵ing innfannt lungs

voices cursing

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Catholic

sidewalKK cracks

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treeless shadoow

bus bedroomm

sound portals

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thirty-sevenn train chambers

moans innprisonn

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tent villages

under bridges, onne

thousannd corpses

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missing teeth

redlined lips

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over police

onne legged wheelchair

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tonngues prostrate inn

crosswalk

flowers

1. Extend underlined long vowel for 2 beats. Example: seem
2. Emphasis on capitalized constants. Example: fi-LL
3. Extend underlined constant for 2 beats. Example: sunn
4. [beat]: take one breath
5. Extend underlined suffix morpheme 2 beats: Example: typ-ing