#5

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I want to have been there
When Lincoln was shot after he freed the slaves
When Washington was elected and gave a speech on new mass graves
When the Magna Carta was signed and England whined into the coming age

I want to have been there
When Sam Coleridge got high
When Sherlock Holmes was a twinkle in Sir Doyle’s eye
On that weird wet weekend when Wollstonecraft put together a man who had died

I want to have been there
When Hannibal was at the gates
When St. John’s head was served up on a silver plate
When Alexandria burned and the world turned and no one could relate

I want to have been there
When an old man hung for runes
When a man lost a hand but was wolf was groomed
When a man with a hammer and a man of frost faced off at high noon

I want to be there when the Earth is consumed

I want to have been there
but I need to be tomorrow.