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I like to see people more than things.

And it’s so often things that are portrayed

When you glance at the cover of a magazine.

And the famous sell themselves off for parts

When what interests me is the whole.

All the same, now and then,

I search for it in between 

And now and again, I find it, 

But most of the time it’s fallen through

By giving the world the thing it thinks it wants.

Perhaps it is a mistake to look for a soul where there is not.

Surely. Surely. And there are plenty of wholes hiding

In my daily walk. But even there, sometimes

They’re hard to see, for so many

Advertise their useless parts, 

Covering up the whole

I long to see.

And would to God 

That I saw more people and less things.