nursery rhymes
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Hush now little baby bird
Don't you sing a single word
Your wings are too small for flight
In the great big purple sky.
Hush now little baby bird
Don't you sing a single word,
eenie meanie minnie mo
here are my problems
watch them grow
a penny for a spool of thread
when you've not a needle
that's the way a life goes
bound to moneys evil
Poor little Icarus
so far from home.
Freedom filled him up
but weighed down his bones.
Poor little Icarus
fell into the water.
By the light of the sun
ghastly silence crept in
like high tide in spring. flooding. subduing.
spilling
over echoes of playful banter. one, two, buckle my shhh---
until
