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Existentialism
Insignificant dust
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Swept under a cosmic carpet.
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From pharaohs
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To the night stockers at Wal-Mar
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Die Like A Roman
I killed myself today.
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It was too much.
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The debt,
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The expectations,
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The hippies,
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The stone
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Arcadia
Merrick, was he
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And now farmer.
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The ghost of the Euridi wars
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But now simply father.
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She gave
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Chest Beating
They speak loudly and in generalities.
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In truth, had they been born 10,000 years earlier,
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Neithe
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Fiddle
I could not read the music
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And so I stood bewildered in the concert hall.
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And I do not know why
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Upon Viewing Franklin's Approachment of the Northwest Passage
When last I had seen merry England
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It was tattered with midnight soot that beckoned the denouement
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Irish-American
Of all the things I ever did
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And on all the things I held so dear,
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Ever all I wanted to accompli
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Peyote Dream
I was dead in the morning and gone by the evening.
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The vultures feasted.
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I laid for hours not kn
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Beside the Dying Fire
I have made sounds that were foreign to my ears
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And have laid in strange places.
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But as long as
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Feral Delight
On a night in December
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In a pale stricken grey,
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Laid beside my Isabella
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In a dark winter's emb
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