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Autumn’s Anthem

We are all fallen
with excitement.

“That sounded
big,” one was

heard exhaling.
“Oh, dear that

sounded really
big!” And so

each of us,
being so

very close
to the heart

of our cumul
ative hearts, 

the one we
perpetually

strum (as it,
occasionally

with a bit
of glee,

harmonically
thrums), stood

in our respective
places and looked

around with a
tinge of anxiety,

waiting for the
biggest and the

loudest 

collapse.