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Taken frame
and three dropped questions
and what is time if there is no second chance
laugh with me and paint this hall and sing a "how do you do" song
as men past their prime guzzle down canned domestic beer

How do you do
Are you happy to be here
Do you want to show us how happy you are

All of these met with silence (especially the last one)

Taken frame, still, shot
we all wear suspenders
and it's too easy to get caught on hooks
rock with me because my back is giving way to the floor
Sway,
when asked what to do say pinch, prick, tickle, punch, poke, anything, anything
just don't say shake, because that's mine
I call shotgun on the action

I'll do it
I'll wear the beaver tail hat if you do these things with me
and we'll camp and turn the stars into piano keys and we'll ignore them
because why drown out the song of 27 drunken men and the call of the nightbirds
with the twinkling of the sky ivories

Still in frame
Border me into action
Front the black still white
white still black

The stars are in one straight line tonight. Funny, isn't it?