DAVID BOWIE - EIGHT LINE POEM


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Tactful cactus by your / window / surveys the prairie of your/ room/
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The mobile spins to its/ collision / Clara puts her head between her /


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  Paws  / They’ve opened shops down on the/ Westside              /

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  Will all the cacti find a/ home?   / But the key to the /city is in/ 

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  the sun that pins the branches to the/ sky oh                   /



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