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Took Me Up To Dublin Where It's FamousBright windy November / with the slap of cold sun sending frowns / and the absent rain not beating down

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Stilled LifeThough you've barely had a ramble / are no wayward canine daddy of note / that brief encounter in our brambles

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LungsThe air doesn’t taste so clean anymore. / I can remember being younger and gasping for breath, / the midsummer breeze provided me with plenty,

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Emerald and Scarlet As They Merge Into GreyA Few lines etched where no words give weight. / Good riddance say the veterans / Of a nation gone sour with grief

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AspirationsIt's a shame how you must have aspired me to become the child you always wanted / in the months and days before I was born, / before reality had its chance to construct the person I would become.

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Maps, Mythologies.Nine months after I was born, the Twentieth Century began to collapse. / East Berlin,graffiti-mural concrete, a jutted enigma scratched / on ordinance maps, the sort found

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Private Jokes and a Polka Dot DressYou measure in / vast spaces that my memory fills / Revolving.

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Neurotic GirlI'm looking for a Neurotic Girl / someone who will break down before I do / someone who's not afraid to cry,as the tea kettle boils,

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Caution Glints The VowelsWhere buses still elapse with Time / Down straight Dame Street / The Trees are satellites that allow Children to look up

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Adventures in StorytellingSo the lads decided to head down the town one day / (it bein' a great stretch of sun, especially for here, / and playin' Fifa tournaments and

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