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  • feigning life

    18 Aug 2002

    just another mortar-board parade
    on another cold, grey, and rainy day
    another walk to show
    how we all crumble for ceremony

    like little army ants marching
    to a battle they are already sure they will win
    a battle that never ends
    a battle that takes no prisoners

    black and red they stepped
    though truly green they were
    right left
    right left

    and in time their faces will grow old
    and weary with the things they've learned
    things like love will die and guilt will not

    and in a dozen flowers they convey love and joy
    things not really felt but passed on anyway
    in the glory of the day

    black and red they stepped
    though truly green they were
    right left
    right left

    and eventually they will drop one by one
    by the hands of god
    by the hands of themselves
    by the hands of each other

    and they will cry once again
    and they will send flowers
    and they will feign life
    to the nines