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Limits / The Lingua Franca
(2021)
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I do one good thing right
Then I do two
Wrong things badly​
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A run, a pun, a rattling gun
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My footprint weighs a ton
On the surface of the sun
But the flames would have won
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Me over
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Roots loom larger
Yarn and all
Storied rumors
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Pink and purple
And yellow beauties
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Out for spring
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Bundles of joy
Laden with the burdens
Of ended winters
They come along for the ride
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One more uninvited visit​
One last reminder
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Yesterday's frenzy
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Recently I have been pre-eulogizing
The dismantling of our age
The mantling of our epoch
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I miss the world
It’s gone forever
We were unknown
And laughed together
We were unknown
And ran together
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4 /
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I wander unseen
In the intervals between dreams
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All around me
The pretended densities
Of hollow bodies​
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Patsies and operatives
Absurd bridges
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Unknowable lines​
Recitations and murmurings
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Feeble conjunctives
Limits and surrogates
Suffer / the Lingua Franca
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