Atlas

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They say I was never right for the city
I was always too droll and not half as witty
As need be to succumb
To the dry spell of being young
And when you hit thirty they depreciate
Your car as you drive it out of state
Into a garage you've built yourself 
Tell you you need to start to insure your health
But I could never agree and I run with wolves
It only gets stronger as the ancient pulls
On my coat sleeve to tell me that the day
Is right now in every single way
And a utopian vision of life as it must
Will only make you sad when it goes bust 
If you make tomorrow your evidence
Of the past and where it went
And I sigh with the wind and I roll with the waves
I let her go and I forgave
Her for all she could never be 
I let it pass by infinity 
As she shouldered me as we left class
He double took and watched me pass
And I just sit here in all my plagiarism
And write notes to a goddess with all the wisdom 
Of another age upon her shoulder
Like Atlas rolling that holy boulder

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