In the same destructive way
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Your broken bridge lies in the hay
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You cannot spell you only lean
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Where magic words direct the stream
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Underneath this buckled quilt
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Flowers old and precious wilt
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They take you to a bluster place
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And dance around your face
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Safer calendars I have seen
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But whoever knew what months must mean
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I sail the skies and fly through the sea
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No miner, cook or fool can die so weakly
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Hasty dashed in quicker clothes
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What if the fishes eat the loaves
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Backward buildings drop to dust
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Gutters turn to rust
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I stamp my feet and scare the ghost
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Welcome that dimension's host
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He flickers and snickers into his robe
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And skips around the globe
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During weeks when I was grey
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I posted night to greet the day
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I shunned the light for beams of black
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No sailor, ship or sea can sink on land
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The lantern swings until your arm hurts
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And all you did was signal your demise
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The Lantern
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| Marty Willson-Piper |
