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By Anne Carly Abad

Android X incinerates the last 
of the fallen trees in the Garden, 
iron roots, twigs, fruits and all, melt  
like red wax, while a guardian,  
a winged gnome flits past him, 
circles overhead in a drunken dance 
of battery-running-out … 

Into the glistening glob, 
he sweeps up its shattered remains, 
along with a scattering of aluminum leaves. 
They c…