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Video Music:
Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major
Op9 no3, 2 Adagio.
By Tomaso Albinoni.
Performed by the Advent Orchestra
at the Free Music Archive
under an Attribution - Share Alike license.
Once more, with feeling, please!
I've had enough
Of lubricated passion come and gone!
Years and years and years and years of stuff
Squirting, squirting, squirt -- and then it's done!
With feeling, please! Companionship, affection,
Shared pain, shared joy, shared silences, shared thoughts.
Not ecstasy fast moving towards rejection,
Frantic with the fear of time and loss.
Slow down, life! Slow down, and be content
Just to be awhile, and let love grow
Or not, as seedlings by the wind are sent
To find their bit of fertile earth, or no.
Let there be no ecstasy until
The plant has been well tended by the
will.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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