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Alex McKeown

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These hours pass slow
Slow like a burial

You’ll weep for this hour of woe
It’ll leave us quick
Like all the hours we’ve known

Based on “A La Santé V” by Guillaume Apollinaire

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Published In: Ezra Published: December 2013

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