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Landfill
In the foreground
around the mound they
were in, there could
be made out bricks and
rubble rubber smaller
mounds: there were the
low ridges of straight
city walls punctured
every now and then by
even higher mounds that
had been the watchtowers:
wind water sand, thousands
of years of brick quarrying
had combined to obliterate
what was once one of the
Wonders of the World: opulent
cities of the ancient's time
lay for an eternity undisturbed
beneath the dust: this sense
of emptiness was everywhere,
this sense of desolation was
common, flat bare plains of
wet mud were crisscrossed here
and there by the fabled irrigation
canals now unused. The very wild-
life that should have flourished
here seemed to have abandoned the
place: this was a strange, malevolent
corner of the world: a place where
huge, gigantic temples had been raised
long ago to gods that no one remembered,
palaces built for queens and kings
that vanished without a trace.
around the mound they
were in, there could
be made out bricks and
rubble rubber smaller
mounds: there were the
low ridges of straight
city walls punctured
every now and then by
even higher mounds that
had been the watchtowers:
wind water sand, thousands
of years of brick quarrying
had combined to obliterate
what was once one of the
Wonders of the World: opulent
cities of the ancient's time
lay for an eternity undisturbed
beneath the dust: this sense
of emptiness was everywhere,
this sense of desolation was
common, flat bare plains of
wet mud were crisscrossed here
and there by the fabled irrigation
canals now unused. The very wild-
life that should have flourished
here seemed to have abandoned the
place: this was a strange, malevolent
corner of the world: a place where
huge, gigantic temples had been raised
long ago to gods that no one remembered,
palaces built for queens and kings
that vanished without a trace.
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