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Genius Minds

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Their days twice as long;	1
their hours doubled;	2
still seems like a minute but its two.	3
More time to feel sad, more time than the regular guy.	4
Their brain not bigger but strangely formed.	5
cradled better, aroused better.	6
More urgent thoughts than the guy working the same shift	7
in a different store.	8

Can't see ghosts, can't love.	9
these are the things they understand too much.	10
Love molecules temporary,	11
romance a repeat thing	12
with many different women.	13
there was nothing special in mom's cookies.	14
dad was just like every other dad.	15
the only thing unusual about him	16
is that he knows how hard it is,	17
how unfair it should rightly be,	18
how lonesome he has to feel	19
in order to get things right.	20

lonesome brings bitter	21
against the cops. and a deep loving	22
for himself.	23

everybody hates the genius until he dies.	24
criticizes the genius.	25
the public picks all of the geniuses	26
from the genius tree.	27
makes sure he can't be happy,	28
feel proud for his hard works.	29
it would make the public feel too terrible	30
about their shit lives.	31

the geniuses are gone.	32
they're all dead and long forgotten.	33
cops got em all.	34

01/20/08

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