| Balance, repetition,
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| composition, mirrors.
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| most of all the world is a place
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| where parts of wholes are described
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| within an overarching paradigm of clarity,
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| and accuracy,
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| the context of which makes possible
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| an underlying sense of the way it all fits together
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| despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such.
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| but then again, the world without end
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| is a place where souls are combined,
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| but with an overbearing feeling of disparity,
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| disorderliness,
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| to ignore it is impossible
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| without getting oneself
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| into all kinds of trouble
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| despite one’s best intentions
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| not to get entangled
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| with it so much.
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| and meanwhile the statues are bleeding green,
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| and others are saying things
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| much better than we ever could,
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| as the quiet become suddenly verbose.
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| and the hail is heralding the size of nickels,
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| and the street corners are gnashing together
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| like the gears inside the head
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| of some omniscient engineer,
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| and downward flows the garnered wisdom
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| that has never died.
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| when finally we opened the box
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| we couldn’t find any rules.
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| our heads were reeling with a glut of possibilities,
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| contingencies,
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| but with ever increasing faith
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| we decided to go ahead and just ignore them
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| despite tremendous pressure
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| to capitulate and fade.
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| so instead we went ahead
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| to fabricate a catalog
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| of unstable elements, and modicums,
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| and particles
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| with non-zero total strangeness
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| for brief moments which amount
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| to nothing more than tiny fragments
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| of a finger snap.
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| and meanwhile we’re furiously sleeping green,
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| and the map has started tearing along its
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| creases due to overuse,
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| when, in reality, it’s never needed folds.
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| and the air’s withholding the sound
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| of a twelve-string,
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| and our heads are approaching a density
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| reminiscent of the infinite connectivity
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| of the center of the sun,
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| and therein lies the garnered wisdom
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| that has never died.
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| Expectation leads to disappointment.
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| If you don’t expect something big,
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| huge and exciting,
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| usually uh, I don’t know,
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| it’s just not as, yeah. |