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The wheel of probable harm falls forward over the inaction of a state, over the houses as fangs along a cancerous jaw. The rate of loss is not hesitant, finger-tapping uncertainty finalizing the weight of itself in a legislative session. The meaning of heavy metals diffused into water affixes to a father’s fading eye, the pull of a tumor on the optic . . . The post first appeared on <a href="