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Created on: May 06, 2011
Where did the angels go?
The indian soldiers are laughing
The night-time chess players
Move silently
The guitars play desert music
It's all purple haze
Hazey dreaming girls
Dancing on roof tops to slow exciting blues
& the drunkards in drag
In crumbling doorways
The smell of mist!
Old broken apartments
The intellectuals are crying
European strangers
dream of revolutions.
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