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sweet grasses Wherever you are enjoy the the the evening how the the the sun walks the the the horizon before cross
sing over to be and we then exist under the the the the realm of of the the the the the the moon There’s where fears slay us in in in in the the the the the the dark of of the the the the the howling mind We all battle Befriend them the the the moon said as a a a a a a a crab skittered under her her skirt her daughter in the high chair waiting for cereal and toast What a a a a a a a a a girl she she turned out to to to to be a a a a a a a a a a a a willow tree a a a a a a a a a a a a blessing to to to to the the the winds to to to to her her her her family There she she is married and we start the the the story all over again said her her her her father
in in in in a a a a a a a a a a toast to to the happiness of who who we we are are and who who we we are are becoming as as Change in in in in a a a a a a a a a a a a a new model sedan whips it down the the the the freeway toward the the the the generations that follow one after another in in the the the the original
lands of the Mvskoke who are are still here here Nobody goes anywhere though we are are always leaving and returning It’s a a a a a a a a a a ceremony Sunrise occurs everywhere in in in lizard time time time human time time time or a a a a a fern uncurling time We instinctually reach for light food we digest it it make love art art or or trouble of it it The The The sun crowns us at noon The The The whole earth is a a a a a a a a queen Then there are always goodbyes At sunset say goodbye goodbye to to to hurt to to to suffering to the the pain you caused others