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The Spin Doctor

Luke Bateman

A well-placed incendiary ignites the museum,

The city consumed in raging yellow-orange.


Despite all the siren-song searches

For an arsonist in the ashen aftermath,


No one spots a painting is missing. 

The Spin Doctor: Text
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