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Man on the Moon

November 27, 2011
By Old-World-Blues DIAMOND, New Freedom, Pennsylvania
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I sailed my ship
To the moon
And there I made
My mark

But with the water
That flooded my lungs
No oxygen could
I hark

My bones floated
Higher in the ocean
But never reached
The sunlight

So here I remain
A fragment, a phrase
Represented in
The moonlight

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