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We work in this building and we are hideous
In the fluorescent lights, and you know our clothes
Woke up this morning and swallowed us like jewels
And ride up and down the elevators, filled with us
Turning and returning like the spray of light that goes
In the dance-halls among the dancing fools.
My office smells like a theory, but here one weeps
To see the goodness of the world laid bare
And rising with the government on its lips
The alphabet congealing in the air
Around our heads. But in my belly's flames
Something is dancing, calling me by many names
That are secret, and filled with light, and rise
And break - and I see my previous lives.