You Are Babylon , 2022
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You were Sumerian, or Babylonian. Walls or Uruk hid our love and secrets. Come touch me part by part, touch my decaying bones behind the tired walls of Babylon.

Based upon a Mesopotamian poem. The cuneiform writing is the word "Ishtar"

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