On The Change In Management Of My Summer Camp

Linger, Longer

Truth-Seeking Child

Be Bright, Be Vivid, Be Blazing

Be Burnt

Be Twilight Over The Sea

Be A Song On The Wind

Be A Viper In The Tall Grass

Conceal, Hide, Entwined

In The Vines Of Its Turning Heart

Linger, Longer

Child Of The Fields

Child Of The Hills and Valleys

Child of Daffodils, Daisies, Dandelions

Child Of The Stars 

Be Truth Of Violent Beginnings

Be Lie Of Peaceful Ends

Be The Toddler, Finger-painting

By The Messy, Bright Hands

Of The clock

Ticking

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Linger, Longer

Wait For The Clock To Stall

Wait

For The Fract-

ured

Broken

Wait

Wait

For The

Circuit Board 

To

Close

Like The Gates

To Heaven

To Innocence

To Black Berry Stained Hands

A Memory

Tent Pitched

Vines

Scratching at

Cutting at

Tripping

Fire

Fire

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Forgotten

Linger, Longer

Voices raised up

Singing?

Singing a Wordless tune

Wordless

Worthless?

Anything But

Not Wordless

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I want to linger

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A Little Longer

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A Little Longer Here With You

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Rewind

Linger, Longer

Fearless child

End with the start

End With Peace

End With Smoke without Fire

End with Being

Not Have Been

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Linger, Longer

Fearful Child

Be The Bug Bites

Be The Sun Burns

Be The Mail Call, Mess Hall, Tie-Dye Shirts

Linger, Longer

For The Next generation

Linger

Dear Child

Linger, Living

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Do not Fret

Do not Cry

Your Tears of Lake Water

Lemonade after two whole cups

Buddy system

Do not cry

For the beaver-shark

For the sanitized smell

Of the

Unrecognizable

New bathhouse

Spiders

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Vanquished

Like the monster under

Your bed

Buddy check!

 

Line up

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Two-by-Two

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Like Animals to the Ark

Like Animals to Slaughter

Like a Loss

Of

Tradition

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Linger, longer

To Spite them

Linger, longer

Because you do have 

A hammer

A bell

A song

Because

500 miles

500 days

Away

Is ritual

Is peaceful

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Barges

I would like to go with you

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I would like to sail the ocean 

Blue

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Barges

Have you treasures in 

your hold

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Do 

You

Fight

With pirates

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Brave

And

Bold

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Linger, longer

For if you do not

You will not be close

You will not be warm

You will be the last breath

The dying

Linger. . . Longer

Linger

All Over This Land








((Bold: Lyrics/references from camp songs))