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The Dependent Clause

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The tired, familiar smell of gasoline 
And the cold morning light through the windshield frost 
We no longer live in the unadorned past tense 
But instead take up residence, alive and resigned 
Behind the buttresses of dead cities
Whose walls muffle the whining, the white noise 
All angry acoustics to make history resonate 

We lament the lost art of common sense 
In the accident and its aftermath we collide and divide
Forgetting the language of living with less 
Fed on aspirations to a greater extinction 
Far too late to mitigate, so draw close and abide 
The loudest sound now a labored sigh 

God's design was defective, the blueprints blurry 
Our old scaffold is ragged with disuse 
So we'll make ourselves a new noose 
But we can't will the storm back into the white sky 
Can't summon a new globe of unknowing 
Some relic from back before the fall 

Instead, we mourn the chores undone 
The floors unswept, the decks uncleared 
And the strange cargo shifted to warmer ports 
Boats keening slightly to one side 
Sailors turning to watch your yawning searchlight 
And the lunar eye above, winking 

They calculate tomorrow to survive today 
Knowing the future is merely the prolonged present 
The lesson, as always
Be neither indifferent nor anxious

So draw close and abide
The loudest sound now a labored sigh

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