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Leafs
by Gary E. Andrews - 05/01/24 01:05 PM
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I enjoyed this muchly, Calvin. Very thought-provoking. I especially like this verse:
A common way to kill a man Put his love on hold A thousand days without a kiss The world seems so cold
Your lyric also brought to mind one of my favourite poems. It's called "5 Ways to Kill a Man" by Edwin Brock (1927-1997). It's too long to reproduce here, but the last 3 lines are:
"... Simpler, direct, and much more neat Is to see that he is living somewhere in the middle Of the twentieth century, and leave him there."
(One could easily replace "twentieth century" with "twenty-first century".
Your lyric expresses well the kind of dehumanisation and lack of compassion Brock was referring to.
Donna
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