3873. MISSING SOMETHING

MISSING SOMETHING

(*see footnote at end)
I am missing something, dreary already, 
saddened and down. The skylark descends.

Nothing but crumbs all over again.

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Once I did marvel at rivers and lakes. 

Once I did soar with the swallow.  

And now - this report just in - all  

has become dark and hollow.  

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I am walking the lame streets. 

This time, Philadelphia has no brother, 

New York City blows the big one,  and

I am stuck at the base of Paterson Falls.

There's an old bust here, of Alexander Hamilton,

looking back at the falls. City of Industry, 

and all that outdated crap. 

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This place is a filthy slum of scrap; 

why don't they just call it that?  

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c/r 2012 http://garyjinn.blogspot.com/

*Confucius had a concept called 'the Rectification of Names', 

whereby when things go wrong it is because there is no harmony

in naming, things are no longer what they are called, and the 

Emperor has lost favor with the God. The concept says that 

unless things are renamed to show a truer harmony and 

reveal by the name each their true self, no good would occur.