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Mirabilia Mundi
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I saw a ghost high schooler
Sipping a latte at the coffee stand
The Queen of Diamonds running in heels
A busking zydeco band
A paramedic pressing down hard on a wound
A mild Santa Claus under a sickle moon
I saw some big time movie star
But I never could remember her name
And a vase full of dead leaves
But they looked beautiful just the same
And the angriest sunrise I ever saw
And the eleventh commandment scorched on a door
I saw burnt out tanks scattered across the land
Cows trembling with panic at the bolt gun man
I saw the devil drag home a soul
Along the railroad tracks
I saw a guy bump his head on the sun
High on cough syrup and whiskey max
I saw bad ass girls and no good boys
I saw fakes, I saw phonies, I saw the real McCoys
I've heard a million goodbyes
Lived through the cold winter of '63
I've lived ten thousand days, each one the same
I've grown tired of being me
I've heard the rain weep in the leaves
Of Nietzsche's palm trees
I saw a squadron of angels in a fleet of Humvees
I saw junk rolling on the tide
I looked 'round corners and under beds
I saw the world and all its contents
I looked in hearts and inside heads
I saw a man hum a lullaby as he primed a bomb
I saw boyhood friends, I saw people long gone
I've seen bonfire smoke under rainy dawns
I've seen the dead unboxed and risen
I've seen comets and unicorns
I saw a butterfly dying on a garden chair
I'd have closed my eyes but I just didn't dare
I never did see God, I never felt him close
He made a world so full of pain that he upped the dose