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I was looking for information of any kind And met a man who said he can contact the dead Just walking by the hospital I was ready to leave “You feel too deeply’ How can I not hear The sleepless souls Who lost their shape Under the weight Of sins dark shadow “I haven’t told you anything yet” Just fragments Time and future have no image Not one, of all the people Challenged the silence Walking ashes of the dead Trying to act casual Now just talking dust “Can’t you smell the scattered echoes?” That we should not hear at this time Is there a bloodier crime The last fish in the Fen Wounded all over I tried not to see But he was dying The burnt horizon of the Taihang Mountains Disappears beyond cold grey winds. ...Your earth. Your river. Your life I did not ask Do the dead have names?
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Oct 7, 2017
Oct 7, 2017 at 7:09 AM UTC
Do the dead have names?
I was looking for information of any kind And met a man who said he can contact the dead Just walking by the hospital I was ready to leave “You feel too deeply’ How can I not hear The sleepless souls Who lost their shape Under the weight Of sins dark shadow “I haven’t told you anything yet” Just fragments Time and future have no image Not one, of all the people Challenged the silence Walking ashes of the dead Trying to act casual Now just talking dust “Can’t you smell the scattered echoes?” That we should not hear at this time Is there a bloodier crime The last fish in the Fen Wounded all over I tried not to see But he was dying The burnt horizon of the Taihang Mountains Disappears beyond cold grey winds. ...Your earth. Your river. Your life I did not ask Do the dead have names?
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Oct 7, 2017
Oct 7, 2017 at 7:09 AM UTC
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