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Tongue gone dumb
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from disuse at some
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numb young sea-scum's post
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Bottle after bottle after bottle out sink
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cold filled to the cork with uncrackable code
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so good through the years the knots went
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that its alphabet was even forgotten
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Me? I'm head vessel for a fleet of tears
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out on my old man's bones parole
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Under sail only for a hole to hell to fill
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with handfuls and handfuls of loose-earned dust
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or plug up level really with anything other than us
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and then to toss a dusty rug over--
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Lost (lost lost) in translation. Lost.
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To a kingdom of light I wish tonight to fall witness
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but victim to a spite it might incite sickness
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I sit in and pretend and through it write hymns:
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Tight-limbed in white English as my one and trite business.
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Light as a nice fat rice sack boiled in water
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out farther than the house of my father
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waiting in the sitting room of yet another doctor
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I taste what little bitter roots this winter has to offer and
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without a son or daughter to shoulder the debt
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alone with the past and prone to regret
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dreamt my death by a knife on a path in Burnet
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but under the bedspread, I'm younger than dead yet.
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Lost (lost lost) in translation. Lost.
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Even an opal heart hopes all night
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in the bright, biting strobe lights
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and bitter cold, as the living set up
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to a long white joke told through sun up
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"˜til the bones and bodies spun around them fold.
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Hopes all night through the old lone fight
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and the bright vast cold, but there's no punch-line
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by this told whack joke for all one's life is surrounded
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"˜til the black hole and bodies spun around it fold.
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Lost (lost lost) in translation. Lost.
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Lost (lost lost) in translation. Lost.
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*(Glass shatters)
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