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[marcos]

But it is far more evocative left in the literal ..... example, like was sung once upon a time, 'man wants an eleven-dollar bill, you only got ten' .... or -

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.


... see, it's like the difference between watching television and sitting there ripped out of your gourd in the back of a coffeehouse poetry reading while the fat lady beside you is going ooo and aaah and generally making stuff up .... less precise, but freer