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Two quotes from Bruce Cockburn appropriate to the Christmas season (and the mood it gets me in):
''This bluegreen ball in black space
Filled with beauty even now
battered and abused and lovely''
from the song ''Planet of the Clowns'' on the album The Trouble With Normal (1983)
This was written in the early 1980s, and there seems ...
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1958
that spring, there was a terrible drought
no one could stop
the earth from cracking open
and spilling its shrivelled guts
mice jumped out of rice jars
not a single grain was harvested
but so as not to make the higher-ups lose hope
our considerate village headman
sent people out night after night
first to paint the
ground ...
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