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            <p><span class="line"><a href="moongone.html">The moon is drowning</a> the stars it pushes them</span><span class="line">under into the darkness they cannot breathe</span><span class="line">they are flailing the moon boasts to my shadow</span><span class="line">how powerful is the moon how great its light</span></p>
            <p><span class="line">My shadow nods and calls the moon father though</span><span class="line">it acknowledges also the existence of others</span><span class="line">headlights are like little moons father my shadow says</span><span class="line">they pass like waves in a dark ocean</span></p>
            <p><span class="line">Father moon becomes angry and threatens</span><span class="line">I can maroon you shadow I can trap you in darkness</span><span class="line">your strength comes from my own the little moons</span><span class="line">are fleeting like foam on a darkened sea</span></p>
            <p><span class="line">My shadow fears the night as it fears death</span><span class="line">but it remembers the moon’s strength is from another</span><span class="line">my shadow wants the headlights like an ocean</span><span class="line">might want the moon as a seducer as a lover</span></p>
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