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Yield (Lyric) by wilco
Dear Mary, Your maudlin ways are wearing thin and its coming apart at the seams of your dress while the stars count the people below. Dear Sadie, I’d like to wait a little while before we start again until you’ve had time to sober up and think about how tonight would end. Dear waitress, I’d like to get my change so I can change myself and be better than I was when I came through the door. After all I wanted was your love and a safe place to hang my head I won’t fall asleep in your arms wondering why we don’t talk anymore. I’m so tired of fighting and everybody needs a place to rest Dear Father, I’d like to give away my cape I didn’t realize what it means to be Superman these days. That’s just a game that children play. Dear Jesus, please don’t think me a waste just because I’ve wasted so many days since I left her heart beating beneath that cross in time with church bells singing songs of faith and things that I don’t need and fall asleep asking why God and I don’t talk much anymore.

Up the ladder: The Virgin
Down the ladder: Elopement

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Arithmetic Mean: 7.8333335
Weighted score: 5.7620006
Overall Rank: 1794
Posted: September 29, 2005 9:35 PM PDT; Last modified: September 29, 2005 9:35 PM PDT
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[10] MacFrantic @ 207.200.116.65 | 29-Sep-05/9:47 PM | Reply
Absolutely stunning poetry! Picked up steam and ended perfectly. No need to be sung. *10* *10* *10*
[n/a] wilco @ 66.61.101.130 > MacFrantic | 29-Sep-05/9:50 PM | Reply
wow thanks.
[9] Dovina @ 162.83.142.20 | 30-Sep-05/6:55 AM | Reply
Dear Wilco,
In a hotmail message, someone might have suggested a Memphis drink. If so, she was adding a friendly reminder that poetry is good as basis for talk and cross check of notions like these, which I might add are pretty good.
[n/a] ALChemy @ 65.188.89.69 | 30-Sep-05/8:09 AM | Reply
Good ol' country song.
[10] Bluemonkey @ 170.141.68.99 | 12-Oct-05/6:27 AM | Reply
Better than anything you've written in a long while.
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