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Unless I Know My Name
Unless I Know My Name
David J Walker
Drugs that make me sleep
Without dreams
Are useless
Drugs that make me dream
Without sleep
Are the same
After all
I am here to name each
Sequenced dream
Frame by frame
A job I cannot do
Unless I know my name
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