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<p><span class="line"><a href="moon-drowning.html">The radio is screaming the man</a></span><span class="line">on the radio will not be quiet he is</span><span class="line">pushed far into the background</span><span class="line">while some NPR talkers murmur over</span><span class="line">his screaming he lost something</span><span class="line">very important. He says it over</span><span class="line">and over but they do not listen</span><span class="line">they think of their children at home</span><span class="line">lying <a href="in-bed.html">in bed</a> dreaming sweet</span><span class="line">childhood one of them is staying over</span><span class="line">at a friend’s house they are staying</span><span class="line">up late they never want it to be over</span><span class="line">not like the man. His life on the radio</span><span class="line">will be the only one he ever has</span><span class="line">his life it is wasted he’s being spoken over</span><span class="line">such pain is in his voice. I wish you</span><span class="line">could hear it. <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">It’s something never over</a>.</span><span class="line">Suffering everywhere always and over it</span><span class="line">the same serene murmur of the comfortable</span><span class="line">distracted or worse looking over</span><span class="line">the <a href="last-passenger.html">shoulder</a> and quietly looking away.</span></p>
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