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You shell me And I shell you
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Shards of balloons and
Strands of streamers
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From a cute miaow you hear at the start
Your cats can slyly captivate your heart
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Without a pack in a world alone / court he lacks he has no throne / no partner to gnaw upon a bone / poor lonely single left to moan / his world is such a desert zone. / With no-one he can call his own
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Reflecting on the transition. Mirror shows our age in reflection
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The construction was precipitately wrought And cleverly put together observers thought.
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That piece of Earth was chipped away one day
With purpose aforethought just like a piece of clay
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They came they went
Their names remain
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I have this curiosity about what killed Cat Stevens
I doted on the rendition of his voice and poetic art
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The blue wash of waves cascade
The beach in a foamy brocade
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The perceptible shudder
of the cellphone and I awake.
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Raise your black and conical hats
Run you brown and blasted rats
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Is any image as moving to human hearts
In the whole pantheon of the scenic Arts
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Cats that race of creatures have so long run with us
Cats through all of time as long as any civilisation
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Days of life in my memory filed
As fusty book stacks may be piled
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United Nations huh - don’t make me laugh.
Kofi Annaan rings his hands while
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Woolly-coated quadrupeds I met one day while rambling
As I negotiated a verdant meadow as I went gaily ambling
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If you could paint as neatly as Jackson Pollock
Or shanked off line as often as Tiger Woods
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I got to thinking what would Steve Irwin say,
To have met his demise in such an arcane way.
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Look at the famous image of that chubby flightless bird
That faded view of the dodo that thoughtlessness interred
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Pity Mr Arthur Miller's brain -
Aching with intellect to impart
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It fell to Jewish Joe Rosenthal to take
That image that did an icon make
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It fell to a Jew Joe Rosenthal to take
That image that did an icon make
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I saw his story via Hollywood
Billy The Hero it said was really good
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People, like a land mass,
May be split in twain
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Part One
In the shine of Alpha Centauri starlight glinting
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Are the oceans really reservoirs of rain
Turned brackish by minerals dissolving?
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You were at the heart of another’s war,
Some weapons did not discriminate
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Tom was known round town for his confident air
And the suspect construction that passed for hair.
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A year ago on an average working day
Ordinary people went their normal way
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I saw an ant process along a fragile flower stalk
Bending and swaying like a rope bridge fraying
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Magic lanterns dimly illumined the slow
days of mankind's shadowy past
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Are redundant
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Penetrating the dark recess
Who could guess
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