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Crafting Inimitable Contrivances

Watching screenlit flickers we wonder:  

when reflections warp and phantom shapes emerge,  

what do we whisper before they rise—  

They fill our minds with borrowed film-noir riffs,  

raining crafted shadows over lamppost glimmers,  

our pens staging dark choruses at midnight,  

dramaturgy of contrivances spun from fear.  

Our hearts drum a blaring piano forte  

in fluorescent aisles and ghosted dorms—  

each polite smile cracks like a winding gear;  

our undoing: inimitable contrivances.