For Lack of Diamond Years 

the windows need cleaning —

let's polish off the year —

gather up all the leaves

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— one x one —

we'll wash them/burnish them —

salute the dwindled sun.

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we'll sing a parting song —

we'll take a boat across the spiked

& spiny sea

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before the true-frost —

before —

the whole-world turns cold.