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Rob Archer
Nov 03, 2008
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now i'm a 45 rpm single

another bitter long commuter

so i ditched the presets

and scanned...

lonesome electromagnetic waves

lit on my aerial

and there was a jazzy piano

retelling of some old standard

making it soft and sexy sad

a brown man's hands touched

black and white keys

finding every blue note an ear could hear

grabbing my poor dead heart

and made me weep for

e…

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