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Kenopsia

I went to the circus when I was thirteen;

Everything was turkus,

All in a rurkus,

And my body brought me to an automated teller machine.

 

Its face was a gypsy, but there wasn't something quite right;

Then I became real tipsy,

I saw smoking hippies,

And when I woke, I couldn't find my parents by a long sight.

 

The circus, the circus had closed down.

Besides the ghosts, I was the only one in town,

And the only thing left was a rusted old crown.

 

5194 the history book told me.

Nothing could solve this, there was no key,

And so I let me dreams take me to the sea.

 

When I awoke, I wakened with a jolt;

I was under a cheastnut oak,

Covered in a velvet cloak,

And everything was normal, just as it was supposed to be.

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Apr 1, 2013
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