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Dream Song 51: Our wounds to time from all the other times

 Our wounds to time, from all the other times,
sea-times slow, the times of galaxies
fleeing, the dwarfs' dead times,
lessen so little that if here in his crude rimes
Henry them mentions, do not hold it, please,
for a putting of man down.
Ol' Marster, being bound you do your best versus we coons, spare now a cagey John a whilom bits that whip: who'll tell your fortune, when you have confessed whose & whose woundings—against the innocent stars & remorseless seas— —Are you radioactive, pal? —Pal, radioactive.
—Has you the night sweats & the day sweats, pal? —Pal, I do.
—Did your gal leave you? —What do you think, pal? —Is that thing on the front of your head what it seems to be, pal? —Yes, pal.

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