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Dictatorship of relativism
You believe your truth / and I'll believe mine / But don't you dare tell me how to live,
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Grandma's bench
I'm sitting on your bench and thinking / about the times that used to be / How we played in your glorious garden
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Dignity
To smile at the unlovely / To duet with undue harmony / To run when a walk would do
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Disappointment
I am the void left by hope. / I am the frantic scrabble, / the gasp for a mirage.
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War Honor?
I will not attribute honor / To easy principles and claims / That war is just a plaything
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The spaceship that I bought today
The space ship that I bought today / Is genuine ex-Milky Way / Titanium panels, gleaming white
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Flourishing in the drought
What brilliant baize of summer grasses / Sprung from the ochre sun-bleached passes / Imperial blades brushing and heaving
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Trainspotters from my window
Regular as clockwork / the spotters gather there / binoculars and notebooks
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Another week
another week / another doctor / It could be nothing
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The one armed bandit
The carpet was tacky, in more ways than one / As I fed the machine to see if I'd won / I inserted my life in its ravenous slot
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