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Would you dress it up in gold,
when it’s made of rust?
Build it to the stars,
when we return to dust?
But if not this,
then what?
In this little snapshot,
life is all,
all we’ve got.
Sometimes,
rust makes the best instruments.
(c) Paul Andrew Sneddon
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