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Why Can't We?

 

Why can't we find a place

Where no rats are in the race

 

Where only idle things prevail

Where, together, we could sail

 

Upstream from all the madness

So far from all the sadness 

 

Serenely would it lead

To a place where we are freed

 

To be as naked as at birth

Just us and Mother Earth

 

There, we'll dig ourselves a hole

And bury deep our sou...

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hope   Lazy   love   rat race

Ballad of a Procrastinator

I want to do it

But I don’t do it.

I hope to do it,

I know I won’t do it.

 

My life of procrastination,

Is believed to be an abomination,

By those involved in my creation.

I will never get spiritual emancipation.

 

This life of procrastination,

Although kills the time I have,

Has enabled my imagination,

To come out of dingy cave.

 

I think to do it,

...

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procrastination   lazy   willpower

Somnambulant

Sunday 

is  for  drowning 

 

a  morning's 

morphine  riddle  of

words  and  stolen

rhymes

 

unkempt  in 

dubious  time

and  exorcised

design

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sunday   lazy

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