| Death Returns
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| | enough to make friends
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| Death returns: it found no resting place;
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| | I saw you again.... It was you who
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| I saw it in flight, last night over the
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| | worshiped my kindsof sins-then you broke
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| Sierras;beneath the last sparks of
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| | away, but now is the time to startcarving
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| twilight-!
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| | new adventures. I have left one sap and
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| The condor's wings covered death's
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| | root foryou-let there be commerce between
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| decent;and glides now through the air in
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| | us?"
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| peace!
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| | I said back to Him, "Dark eyed, ivory
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| Yet death's tail-shadow leaves at dawn,
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| | scandaled, thereis none like thee, among
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| toreturn at dusk, blue-bellied full-asif
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| | heaven, earth or hell; none withsuch
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| it has swallowed a whale (once again).
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| | swift feet, like your tongue-dark as
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| The condor, the condor, likened to a fly
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| | midnightare your shoulders-face of a dead
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| in a webdeath finds no rest, only new
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| | seabed."
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| flesh, new flesh!
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| | No: 1954, 8-28-2007
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| No: 1949 8-27-2007
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| | Selected for Death
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| Death:
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| | "No, no! Go from me-!" I left death
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| The Roots of the Earth
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| | lately in her sheath
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| Death has a way of saying Hello, when it
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| | -oh! Dim it was, for she surrounded me.
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| means Goodbye!
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| | Thin, are her arms, yet such a grip-they
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| We beings on earth's surface never really
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| | bound me,immoveable, and left
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| disappear-only
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| | me...cloaked, as in a web,a cocoon-subtle
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| Transform.
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| | and swift she was, like magic, in
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| From the moment of death the body will
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| | herbinding.
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| change, you can'thear it, it simply gets
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| | "No, no! I cried, "go from me, I have
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| foggy-becoming the roots of the earth.
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| | still your taste-your scent, your soot,
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| No: 1950 8-27-2007
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| | your aye-halt!"
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| The Mystery of Life
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| | (But she wouldn't listen.)
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| How mysteries to be born a human being
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| | No: 1952 8-28-2007
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| -and then to die as one!
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| | Death Passed Me Once
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| To be able to wash off those old fleshy
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| | (1993)
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| garmentsof bark and milky-clay...!
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| | This man knew the secrets of death
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| We are the honored ones-(you know)given
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| | (he cast them over my head).
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| to a whole world system-:one hand
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| | No man could know such things, unlesshe
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| reaching to heaven the other to hell;the
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| | was part of it.
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| truth is, we have two flavors.
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| | And now he's gone, he up and left-
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| Those who have not been born yet:man and
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| | (just like that...).
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| beast are not so far apart
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| | I called, "Are you near?" and he didnot
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| (and very hard to please).
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| | answer me back.
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| No: 1951 8-27-2007
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| | Then at the end of my bed, I saw-why!
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| Dialogue with the Devil
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| | There stood in my hospital room, theeyes
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| "I'll make a pack with you," said He to
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| | and shoulders of a great being:
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| me (the Devil),
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| | He did not speak, -he simple watchedover
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| "I have detested you long enough. I first
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| | me.
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| saw you asa child-then when you were old
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