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And If You Cannot Find Me
After You Have Looked In All Of These Places,
Then Look To The Rooftops

Or

Unimaginable Quantities of Ink and Ingenuity

Or

As the Indigo Children Bowed Their Heads

Or

God Save the Outcasts

Or

The Unbearable Burden of Somnambulism

Or even

Just One More Day
Always: Just One More Day

Tonight, we shall sleep on the rooftops

Our days of living
By the simple truths of thorn trees
Are over
And the dogs are never coming home
So, tonight, we shall sleep on the rooftops

(Like Sean Lance, we shall scale the buildings)

We shall summon the Indigo Children
Summon them to the rooftops
For the rooftops, they say, are free of uncertainty

When the houses smell of twilight
When the moon’s gravitational force is turned against it
When the grass sprouts green and cool
We shall journey to the rooftops

(Like Sean Lance, we will stand, looking down)

Tonight,
The skies will be a projection of our dreams:
A seething mass of hats and hands
Of entangled words and paisley patterns
Of silver moths
Of burning buildings
Of rusted railings
Of peppermint

Of a hysterical war against Instinct

Dawn will never arrive,
For we shall never descend from the rooftops
The staircases have rusted away,
Leaving only the landings in between.
The ropes are severed
The clinging plants have crumbled
And our ink-stained hands are raw and bleeding

Therefore, let us never leave the rooftops
Let us make them ours
And furnish them with candle light
Let us disregard dimension
And collect the small, sharp city lights in our hands
Let us smell the leaves of the Maple Tree
Let us wrap our love in paper aeroplanes
And send them down, from the rooftops
Let us grow pots of tinfoil roses
Let us whisper with the stars
And revel in the infinity of eternal evening
Let us never leave the rooftops.  

(When Sean Lance jumped into the jeering crowd,
It was not the impact that killed him)
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dementedsped's avatar
I love the immagery in this. Amazing ending, as always.