The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all again.
The inside jokes have already dissolved into unordered words with no punchline. The gifts have been reduced to objects whose saving grace is their monetary value, no meaning and all function. There are photographs, somewhere, but I__ not the person posed in them anymore and whoever that is sitting next to me, all dressed up in your costume and wearing your mask, well, that__ not you either.
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The inside jokes have already dissolved into unordered words with no punchline. The gifts have been reduced to objects whose saving grace is their monetary value, no meaning and all function. There are photographs, somewhere, but I__ not the person posed in them anymore and whoever that is sitting next to me, all dressed up in your costume and wearing your mask, well, that__ not you either.
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