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the news
says the sun is coming back
just like yesterday
the news
says the sun
is coming back
just like tomorrow

the news
says this boy
up in Canada
is fighting the good fight
moved into his mother’s
cause he couldn’t take
his medicine no longer

and though he hasn’t seen
anything but the country
he quotes Dylan
and calls everything else
dead oceans

I don’t know his real name
but for once
sitting home alone
doesn’t seem so bad
staring at a screen
hoping the news
will tell something new