Content Warning: suicide

David Harrison Horton - A Song of Hide and Seek

The sea is not poetic,

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nor is the world everything

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which

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is the case.

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The children count fingers

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to contemplate their arsenal,

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as the tourists walk down

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quaint cobbled streets.

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The finch does not know

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the end of its hunger.

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The stationary store doesn’t stock

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good paper,

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but has just the pen

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for a suicide note.