Rivers the colour of energy drink
Self-replenishing disease delivery systems
All manner of enervating agues
Aches, ailments, mayhem-causing lurgies
In menacing ringfenced factories
Hooded peons ply blighting mancies
They triumph in plastic fantasy
In the uncanny valley duality of facsimile
Learning the ritual value
Of witch-valued simulacrum
Overhead a drubbed sky draped
In vague, hinted purple, invaded
By smouldering orbs, cousins to suns;
Judas’ bluing feet covered in silver crumbs
Alchemisland 
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