let's play today.

the clouds are breaking slowly and sweetly and just enough to let ribbons of sunlight splash down on our faces let's play today let's fill the car with gas and beer and horseshoes and disappear for a few hours on end further south on the lake shore let's run rampant today kick off our shoes and paddle over the cracking pavement barefoot at full speed and full of laughter let's jump in the puddles and build in the mud and dance in the wild flowers like we used to before we learned that others may be watching let's fly a kite unfathomably high upwards enough to tap-dance through the rings of saturn and scoop us up some treasures- astrological costume jewelry just waiting to be adorned let's sing like we aren't afraid snap our way to center stage and bathe in sweltering limelight for the world to hear we'll sing away all our blues and the rest of the world's blues too let's jump off the high cliffs in our steam pressed sunday best to show at least ourselves we're all we've got to impress and as we're weightless and pressurized beneath the surface of a glossy green lake let the buttons and cufflinks and pearl earrings fall away so we can see ourselves some clean way again let's forget let us never remember being scared and lonely and lost at cumbersome crossroads of the past let's rebuild ourselves from scratch press stardust and dirt from the ground up to make us new and real and something we can finally feel proud of let's be magic light in the dark and love to the lost we can heal hearts we can hold hands we can be friends and be happy let's play today

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