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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL-LyKcFE5c

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A body of work,

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To build a body of work is the artist's dream.

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A body of work is the Promethean purpose -

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Shelley's house of allusion constructed piece by piece,

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Stitch by stitch 

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And limb by limb by limb.

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Building a body of work is a lifetime affair -

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The Everest inverted, reverted,

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Deconstructed, reassembled 

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And finally laid to rest.

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Building a body of work is an exercise in self infliction;

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It is both the masochism and the sadism,

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The epiphany before the revelation -

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The descent, return and cycle

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Of madness to sanity,

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Sanity to mundanity

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And the adverse reversion to the same.

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It must be built

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Note by note,

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Syllable by syllable,

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Verse by chorus by crescendo

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 - Drop

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By drop

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By drop - 

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Until what you have is worth more than demonstration,

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Until what you have deserves to be carved into stone,

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Until what you have is content to fall by the wayside 

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While your deathbed laughs at the in-discovered irony. 

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A body of work,

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An idiosyncratic, glass-house of cards -

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That,

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That right there would be the finish line,

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That right there would be the point.

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