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| | The Seventeenth |
| | Nose to stone you learn the language-
Build to the veneer. |
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< | Blinking, blinking—never seeing |
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> | Blinking, blinking; never seeing |
| | That which causes
Senseless blinking.
Never once appreciating fear. |
| | Should you walk the path unbeaten,
You may find a
Most unsettling |
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< | Open field—your own unnat’ral Arc. |
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> | Open field: your own unnat'ral Arc. |
| | Shy away from self-inspection-
Something for the pain. |
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< | Pour it heavy—pour it three times. |
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> | Pour it heavy; pour it three times. |
| | Feed the demons,
Calm the tremors,
Soak the soil with your new brand of stain. |
| | Welcome: Emotional Vagrancies.
Don the suit and play with players- |
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< | Don’t look down inside. |
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> | Don't look down inside. |
| | Vertigo awaits the searcher.
Topsy turvy,
Turn back outward.
World turns too, and flattens out the slide. |
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< | Make the “novel” calculation- |
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> | Make the novel calculation- |
| | Give so you may take.
Keep one foot inside your conscience.
Come Reckoning, |
| | Forge the bonds and make connections.
Look at people
Not as people. |
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< | Don’t forget to go meet your partner. |
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> | Don't forget to go meet your partner. |
| | Greet the dawn with trepidation-
Each day is a start.
Each start gains its paranoia
From the others,
From the silence |
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< | Beck’ning you to lock away your heart. |
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> | Beck'ning you to lock away your heart. |
| | Hundred vacant helpless helpers-
Peerless peers who peer. |
| | Reach my ears and
Pull me from the loneliness of here. |
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< | Moment’s peace of real connection- |
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> | Moment's peace of real connection- |
| | Cut down by the clock.
Substantive: the change of setting
Seems to bring out |
| | Dilate pupils,
Gaze upon the floor at all your gains. |
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< | Hop aboard with primed exub’rance- |
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> | Hop aboard with primed exub'rance- |
| | Cars back from the helm.
Know not who conducts the engine
As you whistle |
| | Buy into the buying into-
Strong memetic stride.
Comfort in the trail emblazoned |
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< | With the blazers’ |
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> | With the blazers' |
| | Blazers that you
Hope can manufacture you some pride.
Courting courts of every corpus-
Implicated brand. |
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< | Hold together how you they hold you, |
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> | Hold together how they hold you, |
| | Sweating missiles
As you yearn for
Anonymity, the far off land. |
| | Comes the last approach the first time-
Climb into the pit. |
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< | Wonder about others’ wond’rings: |
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> | Wonder about others' wond'rings: |
| | Do they dabble?
Clean or ragged? |
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< | Who’s to say what you should not permit? |
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> | Who's to say what you should not permit? |
| | Callous now the numbing ceases-
Fool yourself tonight.
Shunt the negative suggestions,
Turning up to
Turn them down and |
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< | Make them know it’s not your place to fight. |
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> | Make them know it's not your place to fight. |
| | Guilt in droves at every angle-
Let them make you up.
Keep that shred of confirmation
As you slink back
Into borrowed |
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< | Robes, still clenching someone else’s cup. |
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> | Robes, still clenching someone else's cup. |
| | Understand the farce unbreaking-
Mass hypnotic march. |
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< | Who among us won’t point fingers? |
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> | Who among us won't point fingers? |
| | Who among us |
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< | Won’t point fingers |
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> | Won't point fingers |
| | Out from under cover of the arch?
Empty eyes and salutations- |
| | Fein the valor look.
Ride the costume from the collar,
Choking on the |
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< | Mem’ry of the |
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> | Mem'ry of the |
| | Fiction you once battled on the hook.
Quiet now return to prior- |
| | Soon we will shed all approval-
Take the step to then. |
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< | Cry out when the last bell’s finished. |
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> | Cry out when the last bell's finished. |
| | Brassy round tones
Mark your essence,
Riding on the missive and the pen. |