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Be a Man

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I am a fly on the wall of a house where the windows are always broken
I am a pause in a storm on a dark stair whenever your name is spoken

Be a man about this
Be the coward or the kiss
Be a man about this

Somewhere there is salt in the air of a season that touches the hem
of an island so northern
Some air is knitting a day for a woman whose eyes are upon the horizon

Be a man about this
Be the boredom or the bliss
Be a man about this

Be the number or the name
Be the picture or the frame
Be the shoulder or the shame
Be the moth or be her flame

I am the birth of a dawn through a curtain
The hurt of a dawn through a curtain

Be a man about this
Be a man about this
Be a man about this
Be a man about this

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eclipse799 On Dec 01, 2013

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2013-12-01 17:23:02

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