Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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tea,
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not shifting his glance from the thick double- spaced printing he read with his jeweller's eye
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Engrossed in his corner,
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he passed onto the other inhabitants
of the room a scrawled insularity of time and space
Verse 3
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For both passed him by with the speed of light, not unlike the flow of substance,
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however varied, into that lysergic entity known as the black hole
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He was hardly ugly for his time, and conversation was certainly not
Verse 4
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lost on him
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and as in antiquity the lonely man was blessed with wisdom to the point of desperation
Verse 5
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But there in his corner, developing around him like a sun,
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was a climate of such rare beauty that sight and sound could no longer be considered sufficient food for the senses
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failed, that mind and matter were in no way connected to one other,
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as if in fact the one could not propose and prove its erotic existence in terms of the other
Verse 7
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"What does this word mean?" he enquired of the solemn waiter hopefully
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"Nothing for dessert sir," came the reply, "perhaps a cocktail, demitasse or a herbal essence,
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it helps the breathing you know sometimes." "The bill, if you don't mind," quickly he shot back
Verse 8
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And as the patter of the feet faded in the room, for he barely heard them now, his eye slowly began to close, and by the time he emerged on the sunny street he was forced to rely entirely on the other eye for help,
but happily it continued its many functions, blinking gently for lubrication, and registering images
Interlude 1
It was rush hour, in Hawaii only 10 am
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Verse 9
he stopped at the drug store and bought an eye patch that soon covered the reluctant eye
Verse 10
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Climbing the stairs he pondered what to do next, he would call a doctor and have tests made,
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eat nourishing food and if necessary consent to surgery, the last re sort of the gambling man
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And at 1 am he awoke from a dream and after fumbling his way in the obolescent light of his room
he peered into the rusty veins of his mirror and lifted away the patch
What he saw astonished him. Where once was tremulous tissue and membrane was now a follicle and perfectly formed vagina with vulva,
overgrown and mysterious, unrevealing and still to the untrained eye
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But in the deep dark recesses of that sticky occlusion lay the unclosing watchful eye of disgust in its closing moments,
Outro 1
lunging forward and hungry for the cold light of days
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