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"Nevertheless..."

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"Nevertheless"


The world applauds its hollow heroes,
cardboard crowns dissolving in the rain,
while the orchestra saws its strings in half.
Nevertheless, I must prevent this outrage!

 

The poet, drunk on futility,
tattoos manifestos on the backs of moths,
each flutter a sermon destined for the flame.
Nevertheless, I shall emerge victorious!

 

History yawns, shelving us beside
pamphlets on the care of extinct animals.
Nevertheless, I demand satisfaction!

 

The crowd laughs not at the joke,
but at the desperate cough of relevance.
Nevertheless, I reiterate, I am not a chicken!

 

And when the curtain falls,
the stagehands sweep feathers into black bags,
while the spotlight flickers like a dying star.
Nevertheless, I’ll prove once and for all
that absurdity is the only crown worth wearing.

 

 

 

 

 

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Think Daffy Duck and let his voice do the rest.

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CBD

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pygmalean ivory

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written some time ago under another nom de plume: pygmalean ivory, during the post galatean interlude

on the banks of the Oise

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A good friend of mine was born on July 27 and so was one of my sisters; only realised that tragedy struck on that same day in the 1890s, during my great grandfather's days.

put a ring on it

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