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Babel | Poem

 

BABEL
 
 

went off my rocker yesterday

don't ever plan to get back on

can't cotton anymore

to bottom lines that drag themselves

below the imaginable

hitherforsense

i'll save rational for deep caverns

and trusted friends

gawd is - is painful

the betrayal

judaspriest

the pain we inflict

because we are in pain there is no end

must be time for babel again

no sense for these non sense times
 

- Sam Hill
5 September 2000

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