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across the great plains
and you have to
imagine the horses
why whoosh!
the coaches, the
cauldron
axes, religion
strange things cannot
be written
but dogs on the
streets
so loyal, must bark
how one man can make
a whole country
meaner, narrower,
worse
I’ve seen it
digital natives
evaporate
the moment they run
out of charge
here’s a little dance
with our all paws
less violins than
there were before
one man commands the
tune
but of course the
narrowness had to be there
it had to be
available
speak the language,
won’t you
that’s how we’ll know
who we are
although the air should
be enough
a little sun you’d
think would do
haven’t we already
suffered enough?
I mean of course the
man
one man
and he doesn’t quite
invent himself
though he’d like you
to think
a kind of saviour
the gossip spreads
he knows when things
have gone too far
he reminds you of
another man
makes the place narrower,
meaner, worse
each with its dog and
its fence
and a man before
it’s the wrong done
to me I must do
then the future is
like that view you get
from the end of the
train
when you the tracks
run away
the train is on time
soon to be gone
we won’t need that
anymore
if you don’t want to
be in Europe
you might have
thought of it a thousand years ago
chosen some desert
island instead
you can hear the
shouting from next door
some kind of crisis
the seas all boil
there is a street of
dogs and sturdy fences
all bark as a
stranger goes by
all play a part
to make this man
possible
the one man
see him look down
from the top of the tree
we, who have done no
wrong before
and he defends the
bitter loss
that’s what he’s made
of
says cut down a tree
and then you’ll be
warmer
not mine of course he
means
he gathers in the
sheaves – mine, yours
gives them to family
and friends
so many!
and yet these many
are few
he speaks in a riddle
of time
there’s a little town
in his head
it’s becoming a
village
soon we’ll burn
witches again
soon we’ll be savage
we’ll have just
arrived
I think you’ll know
who I mean
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