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#43 - All the things we're not

#43 - All the things we're not

What's left when the story fades?

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Nico Olivieri
Nov 07, 2021
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No Way! (...are we really this wonderful!?)
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#43 - All the things we're not
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Thanks to Manuel Will for the picture

what we are
not
is what car
we drive
how far
our shot
will fire
and when our
heart
will stop

I am
not
who you
thought.
not what
I expect

who I am
not
is the name you
call
and the one
I hear
I'm not
my
fear

of finding out.
or finding
myself

naked.
and then what?

who I am
not
is the song I
write
and the one
I never wrote

I'm not wrong
because
I'm ne…

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