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This is called "The
Pomegranate Seed."

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And I guess it's a fable.

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"Every night,
they're at the bar,

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the young woman, the old man.

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And every night, he
tells me his stories.

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They're all the same--

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near the end of
life, regret regret.

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But the stories
differ in the details.

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And some seem to be heading
toward a different fate.

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So I listen.

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What's strange is that
the older the story,

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the smaller and the
younger he becomes,

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and the more I begin to
understand our common ground.

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I'm hooked.

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Then too soon,
it's closing time.

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He's tiny as a pomegranate
seed in the woman's hand.

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She slips him into the
folds of her dress.

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Night after night, we
go out under the stars

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it's winter, cold, and late.

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She pulls me close
and blows into my ear,

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her warm sweet
breath, and whispers

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that she's waiting for the
right man to come home with her

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and release the red seed from
her body into this world,

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then again and again.

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