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The Balance Machine
opal

The balance machine
 1
helps you hold on
 2
to the best moments of your life
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with proficient grace.
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Its oiled cogs and fluent flywheels
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mean no more obliteration of moments
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when life was a dive in the cherry bowl,
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or having to ask another what you did
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in order to recall that crucial time.
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Press its golden button
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and the balance machine
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strikes perfect timing.
 12
Goodbye to getting stuck
 13
at a point in the argument
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when outpourings of bile and venom
 15
corrode the tender carapace of your mind.
 16
 
 
The balance machine ensures
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that only the sweet kiss of reconciliation
 18
remains instead, and though not unscathed,
 19
you appear to outside world at least,
 20
untarnished.
 21

23 Feb 07


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