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The Play Goes On and On

By Gunslinger

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Torn by indecision, rent by inner pain...Face life with derision, you know there is no gain.Feelings so intrinsic, part of life and death-It's coming, can't you sense it? with every labored breath.Love? You say, who needs it? Joy, does not exist-Life is full of vagaries... upon which hope consists...Fate, or call it kismet- predestined, you suppose?Fortune? friend, forget it, the future no one knows.Morbid? just a little, but what more can I say-When you hear the devil's fiddle- he's always paid to play.Life is but a vapor- here today then gone...But the pity of the caper, is the play goes on and on. Written October 11th, 2001 © on Oct 11 2001 02:58 PM PST, John R. Yaws   0 • 10

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"Torn by indecision, rent by inner pain...Face life with derision, you know there is no gain.Feelings so intrinsic, part of life and death-It's coming, can't you sense it? with every labored breath.Love? You say, who needs it? Joy, does not exist-Life is full of vagaries... upon which hope consists...Fate, or call it kismet- predestined, you suppose?Fortune? friend, forget it, the future no one knows.Morbid? just a little, but what more can I say-When you hear the devil's fiddle- he's always paid to play.Life is but a vapor- here today then gone...But the pity of the caper, is the play goes on and on...."

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