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Harsh spoken cadence are these crooked lines we walk by, |
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Yet brilliant beasts of flight. |
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Don't cease to line our roads home, |
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Drowned amongst a sea of faintly falling ashes. |
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We cannot come back here. |
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Speaking through the slit in your tongue. |
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Crying out that you belong. |
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Just for you are bitter in thought, |
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And you ate of your own heart. |
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In gathering the fragments of the time we've sowed, |
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We never chose the crops nor the tares. |
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In burning what's left of every single field, |
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How could you ever forget? |
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What is left to build here? |
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Of which do first we destroy? |
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Ancient sullen anger. |
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Put your hands in the earth. |
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You were once the roots of something whole. |
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Right there where you stand; put your hands in the earth. |
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There is nothing left to set us apart. |
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There can never be an end to all the graves and the dust |
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And we will never wash it from our hands, |
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In carving your name into the marble stone, |
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How could you ever forget? |
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We cannot come back here. |
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Speaking through the slit in your tongue. |
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Crying out that you belong. |
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Just for you are bitter in thought, |
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And you ate of your own heart. |
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Immensity is now your greatest fear, |
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As it calmly tracks your steps. |
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In planting the seeds along your very home, |
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How could you ever forget? |
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And all we have left are the monuments. |