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Oct 2021
Answer my own question
swallow my own lie
lay here and die

Get up to pie
and toast
and coffee

Heave a great sigh
settle around
death's discomfort

Riddle me why
we husband these lies
paint 'em so high

they are nigh
to the wind
on scuppers of rye

all out
we cry
lay here don't cry
Written by
Dennis Willis  Oh
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     Gerald, Fawn, Zoe Mae, Lev Rosario, vb and 1 other
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