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we the transforming people

We the transforming people stay up

   too late on this and that;

   we'll take just one,

   we have a plan

   this is how it works

 

But then we change our minds

   like we knew we would,

   take the just one more and

   go go go out of the late nights

    and out into the glaring sun

 

And then again and again,

wake up and ache,

our muscles reminding us

we have to let them

breathe slow sometimes

 

Thinned out, when we eat

we find that we've forgotten how

  and we've forgotten how to feel

   the taste of genius without sweet

running down our throats and we've

forgotten how to stay

stagnant, s t i l l.

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Dec 13, 2012
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