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You're just trying too hard
to make me.
Calm down- the glowing residue will be 
more poignant than the emotion.
You can do
whatever you want,
you can make me into a thing
your dreams never remembered,
And your children's children 
will find your feelings
in the bottom of an old trunk,
yellowed.

(c) 1995 john garnett drummond

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