For the Love of the Ordinary

I dream in 3x5 frames and microscope slides.
I have that blown in to bits feeling, all red and hot and flowing metal.  I picture sparks shooting into black and I can feel the idea I’ve had of my life slipping into it. 
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It’s all right, though.  I know myself well enough at and in this place to know that this feeling tempers into steel.
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I’ll build that life, even if I have to tear my own small self up for the raw material. 

I have that blown in to bits feeling, all red and hot and flowing metal.  I picture sparks shooting into black and I can feel the idea I’ve had of my life slipping into it. 

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It’s all right, though.  I know myself well enough at and in this place to know that this feeling tempers into steel.

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I’ll build that life, even if I have to tear my own small self up for the raw material.