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And though that other question that I asked and can't
Remember any more is going to move still farther upward, casting
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How many facts we have fallen through
And still the old façade glimmers there,
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Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
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The mind
Is so hospitable, taking in everything
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The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how....
Of who we and all they are
You all now know.
But things get darker as we move
To ask them: Whom must we get to know
To die, so you live and we know?
And the truth becomes a hole, something one has always known,
A heaviness in the trees, and no one can say
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We knew how to get by on what comes along, but the idea
Warning, waiting there like a forest, not emptied, beckons.
We wish to know more but we are never sated
No wonder some folks think the flesh is overrated!
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