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Drowning Sugar Mountain
for Stubb, Starbuck, Flask, Perth, Parsee, Queequeg, Tasthego, and Dagoo
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Handful of packets
I shake.
If I tip my hand
sugar mountain I will make
- Coffee is bitter, so I add sugar to the brew. Sugar is sweet, so I add coffee to the cup. In the end it doesn't matter who goes first, does it?
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- Is making a sour situation better any different from adding a little bitterness to something sweet?
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- Isn't reality just a little of both stirred together?
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- My weaknesses glove your shortcomings, but it's like the thumb is on the wrong side. One of us needs to come to the other, turn this finger around. I can put my vulnerability against your chest, feel your arms around it as you hold close, but if you embrace too tightly I won't be able to turn my head up to kiss you.
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- If being this close is what I wanted, does it really matter if I'm being held too snug, does it really matter if my thumb has nowhere to go?
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- I guess what I'm saying is that a lot of the people who were at Woodstock
had to stand in the back...
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- I mean, think about it, a large percentage of the performances at that festival consisted of one person with an acoustic guitar.
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- So if you were there, I mean really there for three days of peace and music, does it really matter that you couldn't see the guitar players hands?
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- Then you would turn to me and say,
"People didn't go to Woodstock to watch the guitar players."
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To which I'll reply,
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"why else would you go?"
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First appeared on Ampelton. Some very interesting poetry and thought to be found within it's pages - go check it out!
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