Ten Minutes Left to Mars
Ten minutes left to mars tonight
And forever in between
Ten minutes, minute, minus mini-it
Minute mini minuets marching
Softly swiftly sweetly somewhere else,
Away.
Synchronized in three quarter time
In a silent sideways soft shoe ballet
Headed out again,
Somewhere else,
Away, away, away.
I wish I was a minute
When there's ten minutes left to mars
I'd pull some Irish exit shit
And go hang out with the hours
And know that in my absence
There is nothing there
I'd know they know they know that too
I'd know they say "she never stays",
But it's true.
I can't
and never do.
I'd watch them watch me float away
As the moon floats away from the stars
And I'd know they'd wish there was more of me
When there were ten minutes left to mars.
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