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Oct 2016
We fold the blue skies into the bags under our eyes and then say we're not tired anymore
we buy daylight saving from the five and dime store and then say we're not tired anymore,

We're being fooled fooling no one and don't seem to care that the rock we called ages is no longer there,

'***** cat,***** cat where have you been?
and ***** said, I've been to
New York to check out the scene.

Someone is selling us laudanum and calling it platinum and it's numbing us for what will come, but we don't know when that will be.

Unenlightened we're frightened by the least little thing,
yet the church is still full with the faithful while the
faithless pray only to mammon.
John Edward Smallshaw
Written by
John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
(68/Here and now)   
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