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Dream Song 36: The high ones die die. They die

 The high ones die, die.
They die.
You look up and who's there? —Easy, easy, Mr Bones.
I is on your side.
I smell your grief.
—I sent my grief away.
I cannot care forever.
With them all align & again I died and cried, and I have to live.
—Now there you exaggerate, Sah.
We hafta die.
That is our 'pointed task.
Love & die.
—Yes; that makes sense.
But what makes sense between, then? What if I roiling & babbling & braining, brood on why and just sat on the fence? —I doubts you did or do.
De choice is lost.
—It's fool's gold.
But I go in for that.
The boy & the bear looked at each other.
Man all is tossed & lost with groin-wounds by the grand bulls, cat.
William Falukner's where? (Frost being still around.
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