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Ardent Hungry Layabout

By Jack Cade

Mon, 13 Sep 2004
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I don't eat much in the way of lunch these days
I awake too late after nights restless with energy
and an arsenal of visions
In the afternoon I fill myself up with promises
If they were spears then you
would be the armoured echidna
and I the lost legion

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