Other Ways to Say It

I want to halve my cake and eat it, two

For twice as much makes it seem more, too

And less than half means, want more, to

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I need to know the truths I buy

From the discarded half-ones I pass by

Ones, little and white, wave us goodbye

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Music hangs me by a thread of cord

And hearing my song is what's been cored

Simultaneously, both plucks strike a chord

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The seductive aspects of love, I'll

Peruse item-by-item on that intangible aisle

And together we'll defend, to the death, our isle

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The man who is bowling, efforts, gutter-balled

Is the man who, madly, has always bawled

For the hair denied him, on his life, bald

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Restitution and justice, say I

Are nothing more than an eye-for-an-eye

All those who agree, saying nothing, say "Aye!"

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Discordancy is the tune of a lyre

Played by the musicianship of the liar

The chorus includes both the in-tune and outlier

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The wise man will, good omens, seize

When lost upon his stormy seas

And fear not the horizon he sees

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I find respite in rural idyll

The shepherd who toils, my bucolic idol

But soon he scorns his labors as, I, remain idle