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By Jack Joseph Smith
Lasting
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This comfort, thiw against the way the willow,
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I have no time for the way this tree,
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its leving of shadow on o. soil
I sing the memory of movies,
drunk in two or more pkaces
As stable as siguine I am silent
Songs and sparrows rest on my shoulders
Yet I am the only eyes gone away i f
Light comes down heh aoe Ard dghic Ate a 4 he
and I know it is morning
I turn, and the neighbos,
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have not left o be gone
This grass is soft,
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this barefoot walk is ager coalmining stuff
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I am the old material one who loves,
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I am the labore come back to gardener,
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