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There is a definite difference in the consistency of - -
as compared to, never mind the sand, I’m dreaming!
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With a violent bow,
the planks leave the stage, a skeleton with no
curtains or ovation,
somewhere in the stands there is still a heart beat.
Or, at lease we like to think so.

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Every time I turn around I find that there are new ideals - -
what happened to faithlessness?
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Insert nickels
and untie me so we can make our getaway.

Gag on my reflection that bounces off windshields
as we cruise the highways at 120.
We are slugs leaving a trail of slime.
We are criminals leaving no trace at all.

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There is something in the air tonight,
I think someone died here.
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There is - he said - a star
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a real skeleton
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he said that, too.

There isn’t - he said - however
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a real sun
period

that he did not whisper.

It seemed a travesty that he did not smile.

Desperate hanger, hollow-
cheek’d thing.
His bones are my flagpole,
and I raise you like a banner
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There is - he said - a moment
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a single moment

when my heart beats only for you.

He did not say that.

There are - he said - however
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a thousand more that it doesn’t.

And perhaps a dozen that it
does not beat at all

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