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After All
for Franziska on a bright blue day
I
The voices of the leaders on the news
Hurt my head as they try to confuse
As indeed they succeed but not with me
These are not the voices in my head
Given the choice to read all about it
I would rather but would rather not
I could change my mind but rather doubt it
Their destroying is annoying but
I could be making something new instead
So should take this opportunity
To do it with as I do without it
Get on with it with what I have got
But hearing that fearful stupidity
Is the headache I choose to refuse
II
We get two ways to say it and yet neither one
Has what it takes to sound serious
To say your-anus not to say urine-us
Sounds unheavenly for the seventh round the sun
Talk about Uranus either way
Is forever awkward whichever we may
Urine-us your-anus either one
The planet whose name makes it awkward to say
III
I say what I want to anyway
Everything is crazy and so am I
But having said Uranus both ways
Seventh-round-the-sun is the one that stays
Everything looks hazy but the sky
Through a crack in society today
I can see it all when after all
I have seen the leaders rise and then fall
But I know the love I feel is real
Outliving them out for a better deal
If not forgiving them not just yet
It takes a lot of living to forget
I will wait until fate has its way
Out here at the Hi-Desert hideaway
Steven Curtis Lance
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Love ya!
Jane
Sandie