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We all need
somebody to love

but do we really need

Grace Slick and Freddie Mercury

to tell us about it?

Grace who tries to deny Woodstock

and Freddie Mercury

who may have loved too much

well, maybe,

this whole culture is false;

rotten to the core

We believe everything

We hear on television

and allow basketball players

to decide what sneakers

we should wear

but what about love?

What about love

since we brought the subject up?

Just what do we do about love?

It gets relegated

to the soppy sentiments

of a Hallmark card

and lonely sailors and cowboys

masturbate on emptiness

The hollowness of the screen

is merely a reflection

of the hollowness of our eyes

and the past is the past

This is the present

We need to find a way

to love to love ourselves

to some somebody else

without editorials on TV news

and newspapers reporting

We still need somebody to love

but love can kill quickly

when it isn’t real

when it isn’t real

but we refuse

to open our eyes

and see that fact

and it can’t be real

until we open our hearts

and open our souls

until we learn it requires

a little more giving

and a lot less taking

We all need

somebody to love

and it’s always there

in one form or another

free to be had

if we only open our eyes

to see

and open our hearts

to love

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