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The Lantern Market

At the stall, the lanterns weave nights and offer pulp of memory,
slicing candied laughter, crumbling regrets dry as bread,
passersby feel the glass, buying the scent of a lost afternoon,
paying in silences, receiving pieces of time that ignite.
The lanterns haggle in whispers a sunset for a nascent secret,
he who has little takes a flash, he who dares steals an entire season,
when dawn draws the shutters, the lights tally their small debts,
remaining are hands that gleam, with memories wrapped like cards, ready to fade.

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