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It's a sidewalk symphony/roadside suite.
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It's the trash-bag canopies on Eldert St.
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It's the blue hum broadcast through a common radio
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voices...singing...hard-times...rumors(stories)of creation.
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In trusting the impersonal much sacredness is lost.
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Most enlist and thus have missed the kiss extracted from the dust.
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And I've listened since my patience began
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and it glistens in the distance, standing in the footprint
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where I found my lover lost.
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Though it makes me tremble all these thoughts
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that I assemble fall like droplets in an ocean,
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waves surging, yet balanced like the tides.
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Mine is for the taking, every note that I am shaking
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falls like waves all around you.
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What colors have you sought from the demons of the world
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Segregated rhythms on the Bayou banks, the pearls of injustice
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the way the blacksmith pounds the heated rod,
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patience, the hammer knows.
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Thrice you have rescued me from falling grace;
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once when I was a beggar and you were the rain on my face,
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once when I was crippled and you carried me,
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and once when the blindness of others taught me how to see.
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Staring at the green that surrounds my pupils leaving
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bulletholes in the glass--the glass I was trained to see
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myself in, through two-dimensional bulletholes.
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I remember walking from the market to the park,
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streetlights flickered and your eyes grew dark.
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Paint me a picture darling, I'll put you in it.
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In the hands of warlords the concrete turns to prison yards
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and the corporate mind is pointing towards the capitalizing
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off ignorance, indifference, exploiting our inheritance.
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Lightning over the motel in Sioux Falls, South Dakota-
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the watchman checks a fuse. With his stoic black hair
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and his blue/green eyes--more energy than we know how to use.
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Here it doesn't matter how many mirrors you had to
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shatter on your way to get here--what colors have you
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bought from the demons of the world?
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Wider than a river and deeper still,the wounds of cruelty
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will heal themselves, I know they will.
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Slow changes, and gathering ourselves.
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