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"The Spring Cricket Repudiates
His Parable of Negritude."

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"Hell, we just climbed.

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Reached the lip and fell back,
slipped, and started up again.

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Climbed to be climbing,
sang to be singing.

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It's just what we do.

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No one bothered to analyze our
blues until everybody involved

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was strung out or dead.

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To solve everything
that was happening

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while it was happening would
have taken some serious opium.

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Seriously, all wisdom
is afterthought,

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a sort of helpless relief.

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So don't go thinking
none of this grief

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belongs to you,
even if you don't

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know how it feels to fall.

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You can get my drift.

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And I, who live it daily,
have heard that perfect word

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enough to just when to
use it, as in, oh, hell.

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Hell, no.

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No, this is hell."

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