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At seven, the city cinches its teeth: buses take the lanes, shop shutters rise, a thousand kettles begin to mutter. I arrive grease-black, a loose bolt inside the bright machinery— not thunder, not prophecy, only the wrong weight in the right place. A red light holds. The timetable tears its neat mouth. The lifts stop between floors, passengers suspended in unfinished sentences. By noon, every gear is chewing its own teeth. Do not call it destruction. Listen: under the sirens, under the traffic, a loose bolt rolls through the darkened works. At 8:17, one bright tooth slips from the gear. The whole machine opens its mouth.
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