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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