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Fighting with the whale

from A mile from any neighbor by Humpty Dumpty

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Sit down by the shore and patiently
Observe the water that moves
How waves slowly rise and intersect
And melt into the blue

If you lose patience
A reflex may look just like a whale
Will you start a fight
In the smallest pond you’ve sailed?

Beauty lies in the eye but it requires
Attention for what’s overlooked
Properties and names
Patterns and details
Self-discipline and solitude

If concentration
Fails you’ll just be looking far away
And chasing some beast
In the smallest pond you’ve sailed
Without a gyroscope

Can you see
What’s inside a cloud?
Certainly water
It’s droplets and crystals of ice
In the troposphere
Where something begins to take shape
Don’t you think it looks
Quite like a whale?
You are out on your own
In the smallest pond you’ve known

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from A mile from any neighbor, released December 13, 2009
Humpty Dumpty: music, vocals, all instruments
Renato Q.: Lyrics

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Fieramente arroccato su posizioni di intransigente autoproduzione e autodistribuzione, solenne spregiatore del compromesso assurto a modus operandi, ha all’attivo 22 dischi e parecchie collaborazioni.

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