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By Jack Joseph Smith
The Little World
Hello, I want something that I don't
But if I don't want something that that I want
The scorge and the life, the catch in the rye
he won't hate then when they've been gone
A fre varticals & lousy songs
The wonder over misery, the shout holding your legs
The guess as a true dream, any mistake never cleared
Trimuph and the wave of a hand, any one of the seas,
were oceans before you identified them,
as red and blue and green and orange and gone,
and black and white and grey and colorless down
Wilder than all the world of thought
Little by little we work our way out
Crushed alert we don't quit on account
We watch pity and hate thrive
We don't pray, we laugh,
say thank you Jesus,
and see scorn as a definate hereafter
Look how close we come to killing and taking
see how far away they are from streams,
natures magic ways, and the end of the line;
that is machanically as it is spiritually,
I with adverbs simply,
during this little world speak