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IDLE

around the corner from the obvious
down the road from the oblivious
across the screet from the progress
that your patience may someday bring

over the river from comfort and trust
over the border from some kind of lust
above all the avenues of patience and disgust
progress waits in the wings

progress needs patience
to keep it alive
patience brings waiting
and a will to survive
waiting brings little
but the want to arrive
from the idle hands
waiting on the other side

under the radar and into the streets
under the covers and into the sheets
falling once over for the ones who persist
and the ones who insist, well...
you know they never help

into the sum of the substance of this
under the thumbs of the ones we missed
and the ones that we kissed now grow like a cyst
on the face of the patience that we once held

progress needs patience
to keep it alive
patience brings waiting
and a will to survive
waiting brings little
but the want to arrive
from the idle hands
waiting on the other side

-4/17/05

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from Pretending To Fly (fdm096), released December 15, 2017

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Chris Anderson Alexandria, Virginia

Chris is a wildly prolific songwriter who has hovered among the outskirts of the music world for over 30 years. On his own label, Flying Dachshund Music, Chris has released 154 CDs, 96 of them being full-length albums. That's just the tip of the iceberg and there are no signs of stopping. Ever.

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