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A New World

Each person today should have freedom of speech,
Then universal justice could be easily reached.
So every person should be given a voice,
Then we shall find fairness with freedom of choice.

For this justice to prevail we must have the same rights.
With the world's meekest person still able to fight.
So if anyone's sick they should then be looked after.
If anyone's lonely they should be gi...

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Stuart VannerNew worldEqual rights

Normalcy Bereft

They rewrote songs on the sceneries of their dreams,

under the same roof, in the same room, but alone.

Living in each other’s isolations,

so tiring, boring, sensual, overwhelming, warm.

In thoughts, several severely intimate moments had passed;

their knotted minds kissed intermittently, not seldom.

 

He knew he was boundless, liberal, enraged, , jealous, dizzy,

he thought h...

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