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my love she just sighs,
leaning the weight of her whole
   world on her elbow
& blowing smoke out the window
she dreams about following it back home
   for now she can do it with her eyes
the sounds of the city never cross crooked crimson lips
& her hands don't quite tremble with a heartache's faint despair
   no daydreams of the past, distant glimmers of the future
she mostly just sits in the back of black taxicabs
dreaming about somehow finding herself
   it's out there, she swears
& it'll be all right