I Am Charlie

because when you stormed out
with murder in your eyes,
stopped listening half way
to my list of
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When you see someone up on their tall pedestal
shaking a pointed fist...
so far from the ground his nose is way,
way up in the air...
...

'You're dead.'
'Yes.'
A thought, gently unspoken.
'Must I still laugh? '
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we gather, we say, to bury the dead,
give them respect and lament for the lost.
'Ashes to ashes, dust to dust'
the overfed man of cloth drones on.
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He took her there
in front of all-
The searing kiss
in a hot embrace-
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So sue me princess,
I didn't know the price of love,
and by your face, i guess you didn't either.
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'Tell me again how you love me so,
how you love my eyes
and adore my face.'
She whispers,
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Little girl,
why can't you just believe,
that nothing's going to make me leave?
Little girl,
...

She keeps pushing desperately,
slaps his hand and walks away.
She knows that she is a fool,
she can't plunge in, so sits there lost;
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He strokes my hair,
while I lie awake but far away.
I know he wants to talk.
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Every generation...
according to the worldy wise...
there's a degeneration....
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