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chasing shadows on the wall of life people who once were but are no more we can’t talk to them but they speak to us through works of art in countless different shapes and colors chasing shadows on the wall of life the Library of Congress is full of them dancing in the dust of civilizations gone by while the living etch out fresh shadows in the contours of the globe chasing shadows on the wall of life the museums fill up with new dinosaur bones and the paleontologists say if Tyrannosaurus would have survived he’d be running for President of the United States chasing shadows on the wall of life things that once were but are no more the newspaper printed a photo of Manhattan circa 1935 and the shadows on the wall they smiled © 1985 Chris Sorrenti
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