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Wordshaman
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0 posted 2000-04-14 09:56 PM


I don't know what I expected.
We...we were young,
And I didn't know how you'd all turn out.
I didn't have any expectations.
I had a guess you'd never get out,
And from that fear there arose a need
In me to wake you all up,
But I became slothful with you
In your velvet drug havens.
I almost unwittingly became you.

I don't remember how I perceived you.
You were small-town kids
Who grew up alongside me
And kind of saw I didn't belong,
But I lived nearby,
So maybe I WAS small-town.
On my couch in the big city,
More than a hundred miles from you,
I laugh as I go over the paper
I edit for and find a mistake.

Did you guys change too?
I harbor the hope
That if I saw you
I wouldn't know you.

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