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It's like trying to tickle someone when you have no fingernails It's like writing poetry with no heart and with no words at all. It's smoking cigarettes everyday for awhile and not thinking about it, they say lung cancer wants to see you after your show, don't forget skin cancer called too It's getting a massage from your ex and your girlfriend enters, It's like hearing sirens but not seeing red and blue, It's not remembering why you got their but do you remember the path you walked to see those iron bars? It's a hat with no brim, or an animal lacking primal instinct it's trees without phloem but osmosis is falling on itself it's a painter without eyes, a prophet whose own cat got his tongue its all about armed forces, arms dealers, war on drugs, war on terrorism, brothers in arms, support the soldiers, remembering those fallen, veterans, astronauts, republican nominees, presidential faults| "We want the world to stabilize." It's like vanishing and coming again, its not a reflection from water it's not a magician revealing his trick or certainly not receiving a wizard's staff it's more like having Shakespeare's pen but not quite enough paper it's sort of like having the world in your hand but immediately getting your arm cut off.
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 11:30 AM UTC
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It's like trying to tickle someone when you have no fingernails It's like writing poetry with no heart and with no words at all. It's smoking cigarettes everyday for awhile and not thinking about it, they say lung cancer wants to see you after your show, don't forget skin cancer called too It's getting a massage from your ex and your girlfriend enters, It's like hearing sirens but not seeing red and blue, It's not remembering why you got their but do you remember the path you walked to see those iron bars? It's a hat with no brim, or an animal lacking primal instinct it's trees without phloem but osmosis is falling on itself it's a painter without eyes, a prophet whose own cat got his tongue its all about armed forces, arms dealers, war on drugs, war on terrorism, brothers in arms, support the soldiers, remembering those fallen, veterans, astronauts, republican nominees, presidential faults| "We want the world to stabilize." It's like vanishing and coming again, its not a reflection from water it's not a magician revealing his trick or certainly not receiving a wizard's staff it's more like having Shakespeare's pen but not quite enough paper it's sort of like having the world in your hand but immediately getting your arm cut off.
hank-roberts
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 11:30 AM UTC
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