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The Midpoint
When the ice melts off your fingertips
That’s when I shall puncture the glass
Playing the strings of your lungs
How many more vices
Madness came to visit you with a heavy knock
Haunting the past while
The beatniks add an extra beat
To the melting salad that drips
You and you sit side by side
At an old diner that serves meat milkshakes
Covered in the remnants of your country
This is what you fight for
Blood with no scars
Wounds that face brother to brother
A cup of coffee falls from a seizure
The fog is clearer than ever
Justify it with the shadows
Littered scattered and battered
The tension has been distributed
You can wave the causes till they forget
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