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Marketed Lifetime

by nicholas-foster

Labor and labor, Stay away from your neighbor For they can teach you right Grind and twist While you stand and mix The scattered world of spit and bricks Gaya's dead And we hang by a thread Hoping for a hand But the hand was there And it seems unfair Though we gnawed and chewed and scamed Now we drink our wine As we strip the grapevine For more, and truth the same But know you cannot fathom The nature of the atom So what do you know at all? Though you claw and scream On the freshly tiled stream Hoping that you'll arrive To the bodhi tree Or the bodhi sea Where Adam's apple derives But mix and mix That sweat and piss For the nonexistent dollar There, you'll search and search In every book and church At least you were a scholar Though value has left Upon the swollen scarlet chest Of the robin that gave you all So dance and bleed Exhibit your greed Knowing this is just a brawl Until you cut the cord Mount the cosmic surfboard And land upon thyself To live and love What's below and above A concept sly with stealth But you'll work and work As you barley lurk Outside the stadium of "it" Here, you will look with wonder The cause of mans plunder While you mix the bricks and spit
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