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SOMETHING MORE II

What are we doing?
Standing around
idly waxing nostalgic about�
whatever it is we�re saying.
Why should we waste our time?
I want to say more to you than �Hot enough for ya?�
I want to say more to you than �How about them Mets?�
I want to ask probing questions about your past
hear interpretations of events only imagined.
I want to hear dreams and fantasies
and not think they�re sorry cliches like what I heard last week last month last year.
I want to do something different.

I want to dance with you on rooftops
and sing songs on streetcorners for ha�pence
or whole pence or holed pants
or whole milk � it doesn�t matter.
I want to be living at a level higher than I am.
I want to be aware that there is more than this present breath.

I want us to be intelligent
� but more, I want us to be experiential..
I want us alive like we�re not now
or weren�t before this outburst.
I was us everything we haven�t been:
Evil
effervescent
effective
unembarrassed
and eternal.

I want more.
I want more from you, from me, from us, from them
� but that might be too much to expect.
I want a lot, I think
but mostly, I want something more.
I want something new.
I want you to say something new.
So� what�s new?
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