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THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
WORDS & MUSIC: Earl P. Reinhalter
I. I see bones inside my feet
and girders in skyscrapers
and black hearts on the street
and scarlet-letter neighbors.
if ignorance is bliss,
what kind of hell is this?
II. do I dare look at my wife,
my children or my parents
if innocence in life
is only incoherence?
if Paradise is hell,
where do the angels dwell?
III. a killer shot a man
who dared to recognize him.
I'll get out while I can
and paint a new horizon.
amnesia comes to touch
the man who knew too much.
IV. or should I learn forgiveness
at each bridge when I cross it,
and say of every skeleton:
there's one in every closet
up in the citadel
where all the angels dwell.
© Copyright 1993 Earl P. Reinhalter. All Rights Reserved.
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