As the day is long, so the well runs dry, and we came to se… - Joanna Newsom

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As the day is long,
so the well runs dry,
and we came to see Time is taller
than Space is wide.
And we bade goodbye
to the Great Divide:
found unlimited simulacreage to colonize!

Joanna Newsom

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Joanna Newsom (born 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. She plays the harp, as well as the piano and the harpischord.

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Birth Name: Joanna Caroline Newsom

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Leonard Cohen Edna St. Vincent Millay Anna Akhmatova William Butler Yeats Anne Sexton

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With the loneliness
of you mighty men,
with your mighty kiss
that might never, never end,
while, so far away,
in the seat of the West,
burns the fount
of the heat
of that loneliness.

Picking through your pocket lining, well what is this?
Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?

We could stand for a century
Staring, with our heads cocked
In the broad daylight at this thing
Joy
Landlocked
In bodies that don't keep
Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being
Until we don't be

As the day is long, so the well runs dry, and we came to see Time is taller than Space is wide. And we bade goodbye to the Great Divide: found unlimi… - Joanna Newsom

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