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Michael Ruby – Blessed Is Failure


Michael Ruby

Blessed Is Failure


The worlds flame out
Straightened by chance

You know fandangos
Punish every dawn

Smatterings of small planes
Improve the fat cigars

Importers of grasshoppers
Sounds amount to nothing

It’s funny about the water
Berry berry everywhere

At the bottom of mouthing
Aimless safety fulfills

The answers to laughter
Running the risk of rancor

Noise mounts from shadows
The birds want something

Everything wants something
Except the red montage

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