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The rainbow bridge has melted in its wake.<\/p>\n

The overwhelmed face more than they can take.<\/div>\n
The clown car’s screaming downhill with no\u00a0brake.<\/div>\n
There is no sense of what is real or fake.<\/div>\n
The multiplicities embrace\u00a0no common theme.<\/div>\n
Is life a cabaret, or maybe just a dream?<\/div>\n
Without the senses, sensing nothing is as it may seem.<\/div>\n
Death alone can turn us into something like a team.<\/div>\n
The fires of winter turn eventually to hails of spring.<\/div>\n
And nature redefines the nature of what it can bring.<\/div>\n
Of days of old, like solid gold, so simple, we now sing.<\/div>\n
These days we graze, we praise, but we don’t understand a thing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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