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6. Sending
We drink the blue sea and eat cakes of clouds
to make a statement over the hunger in the eyes of the disappointed,
but even those who were sent to gather the bones of the people we
love were charged with infidelity.
7. Thankful
They say the sayings of a nation marks its character,
so with the monocles of experience
we have successfully carried out the alchemy of our existence,
purifying sweat and tears to become universal elixir of our own
immortality.
8. Vain
We do not laugh at our own vagary
for we know that even dirt can be made holy.
9. Conscious
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