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You’ll have to go on inner wind
\nto get to the heart of the cartoon monkey.
\nTo see the numbers dashed and sinned.
\nThe alphabet, your average junkie.
\nAnd down the stairs of other worlds.
\nAnd up into the light of silence.
\nThere’s your shadow, locked and curled.
\nClouds are tame. Sun is violence.
\nYou’ll have to go on slow rewind
\nto get to the vein of the masters passed.
\nOn line, the winters, grey and blind.
\nLong falls of marching underclassed.
\nAnd down the pipe of lifelike smoke.
\nAnd up the stream of bloody sorrow.
\nCartoon monkey beats the joke.
\nTurns into a man tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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