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send out for a crying room that can hold water
razor blades they hide in the free food
best go get a protection shield for your mouth
get a crying room that will hold water

sent the last good boy out for coffee and a bagel some days ago
guess he didn't make it

i look out the window, down below
to the ever widening hole in the intersection

does anyone live at the bottom of that hole
does anyone live

guess we'll have to go out and get our own coffee and bagel

i thought about coming here to love you
but they handed me a lot of papers at the door
filled with instructions that would get us to where we thought we had to go

nowhere in those instructions
did i see anything about it being legal
for me to come here to love you

guess i'm going to have to break the law

otherwise i'd have to hate you

am not ready to do that
give me time maybe

no

don't give me any time

give me your hand,though
don't know where our hands will take the rest of us
but let's start there

sort of simple,really

without thinking
just stick out your arm

without thinking
just explore your heart
---Scott Wannberg 3/23/03

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