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"I wish"
by Bohdan Yuri
2008-03-31 09:30:42

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you are black I am white
I wish you could be more
like me

you are white I am black
I wish you could be more
like me

I am white you are black
I wish I could be more
like you

I am black you are white
I wish I could be...
just be.

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Emanuel Paparella	2008-03-31 11:28:03
"Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker." - Allen Tate (Add a comment) Quite right: T.S. Eliot was a banker for a while but that did not prevent him from writing poetry which for him was as necessary as air and in the end defined what he really was. Nobody would dream of placing on his tombstone: here lies a great banker. The real mystery is what makes some people think that a great banker, albeti one who writes verses, is the equivalent of a great poet. I suppose a partial answer may be found in Huxley's Brave New World.


Chris	2008-04-06 03:49:48
I am a shadow We are all just grey Shades of grey Our wishes are grey The line between me and thee Is forged in shadowy grey Grey is more like grey Wishless and content