{"id":186,"date":"2007-05-11T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=186"},"modified":"2007-05-11T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T03:23:00","slug":"electric-cabbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cabbage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have wanted nothing else
but to release the machine
from its stall<\/p>\n

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I have told it
you are better than the others
faster than the others,
they paint with sticks
and they talk like fools<\/p>\n

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Sure, a lot of it’s junk
but there’s a thousand sides
to a sheet of digital paper
and the machine is never discouraged<\/p>\n

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Batting one in a million
to an empty stadium
the machine is still a star
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Tim Hodkinson<\/a><\/p>\n

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