Ninety-Six

Music: La Cathedrale Engloutie.
By Claude Debussy.
Sequenced by Jeruen E. Dery at Kunst der Fuge.

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Ninety-six looks forward to one hundred,

Intent on reaching that elusive goal.

Not that life�s particularly pleasing;

Even so, the signal thought of squeezing

Time to fit an arbitrary whole

Yields a satisfaction to be savored.

 

So he lingers, withered, weak, and wheezing,

Imagining The Moment, from time severed,

X upon a sea that knows no shoal.

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