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We too have been taught another way,
we know that fiction bears a truth that history can never comprehend.
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We have ventured into the unfeigned dark, there are no fireflies to light
the path
but in the heart burns a lamp, its wick is made from passion.
11. Raised
In our pockets lie our rejection fees, stipends to have us quit dreaming,
but we are not afraid of looking back for it is now our only way forward.
So with their rejection fees we would buy ourselves acceptance
and remind them that our mothers did not raise fools.
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And when the verdict has been read in the court of posterity
where history bore witness for prophecy
regarding the issue of our righteous apostasy,
may we, the new interpreter of memory
find in that era of incarnate apoplexy
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