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Balloon

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i don't want to be there
i don't want to be here
where can i go?

what good would it do
to change things?
what makes shaken
better than stirred?

gradual change
is no change at all.
upward mobility is nothing
if i've got to take the stairs.

words are irrelevant
if they're foreign
legibility and comprehensibility
does not eliminate reprehensibility.

i do not
lack passion
i love, a little, sometimes
but never enough.

the love that flows in
is never matched by the flow out
and i will explode
i need an outlet.

popping a balloon
makes lots of sound
and destroys the form
yet disperses the pressure

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