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they say that these are not the best of times,
but they're the only times i've ever known -
for we are always what our situations hand us:
it's either sadness or euphoria.

through argument and compromise -
our separate conclusions are the same.
we choose between reality and madness:
it's either sadness or euphoria.

how thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies,
holding our respective similarities.
standing on the ledges of our lives:
it's either sadness or euphoria.


with most sincere apologies,
but no regret,
for poetic license taken with the words of
the inimitable,
the incomparable,
the incommensurable,
mr. william martin joel.