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On Urras

from The Golem by Ari Rosenfield

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Yes, I did write a song about Ursula LeGuin's excellent novel, "The Dispossessed."

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blink and sneeze and stare right into the sun
anarres picked me up
shook like a dusty rug
and set down by the scruff

eyes wet, nose wet, direct line to the gods
it ain't always pretty
that platonic soup
whence newton yanked the calculus

so it's one-two-three, six minutes' certainty
near-spiralling infamy
maybe i'll know when i see

the dilettante, the prophetess, unfamiliar scent of war
her smile is like an answer
or just an open door
now i'm cut off, like a cancer

i came to behind bars, forgot everything i'd known
they might've thought to change me
they couldn't chain old odo
i'm nothing but their worker bee

so it's one-two-three, nine minutes' certainty
reduced to babbling infancy
maybe i'll know when i see

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from The Golem, released May 4, 2016

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