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Yeah, I've got a couple more.

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It's called "Disappeared".

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Surprise!

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I'm sorry.

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[LAUGHTER] "Disappeared."

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"I still count
deaths I've known,

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watch the longest nights of
our lives shatter into wine

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red slivers, ticking seconds
of hope, when no one but us

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could stay clean.

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Those parched Earth days,
all the unseen dangers,

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secret enemies living
only in our minds,

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nameless fears hanging
from a single light bulb

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above the meeting room table.

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I think of general delivery,
or that place atheists go

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when they're lost,
our tree trunk

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backs broken as any of the
martyrs, the old ones' eyes

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darting under 10 gallon hats,
Mad Joe comatose in the corner.

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I still feel the thirst of those
who vanished, so we would not.

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We could never gather
enough of our rusty weapons

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to protect us from
those altitudes,

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from the God we never
knew except in the bottles

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we finally smashed on the
desert floor, wet eyes watching

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shards scatter high
as the ice moon.

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Everyone was a witness then.

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Who could stop
their palsied hands?

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Who could possibly be still
with all that silent keening,

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hot grief steaming over goodwill
tables in the little house

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where three roads met?

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Jails, insanity,
death, they said.

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We turn to each other then.

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But your leaving still
looms in people's eyes, Dan,

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that longing huge
as our ruined lives,

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and we waited like saints
to be cut into perfect gems

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by the world we finally entered.

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Willingly, some would say.

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Right where you are, the old
ones still chant each night

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over the hallowed
book, their faces

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shadows of ancient
battles and stale air.

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Their yellow tipped
fingers gripped mine

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for the closing prayer, as if
it were still our last chance."

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