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 * Well...

Maybe the morning sun is a five-cent yellow balloon,

And the evening stars the joke of a God gone crazy.

Maybe the mothers of the world,

And the life that pours from their torsal folds—

Maybe it's all a lie sworn by liars,

And a God with a cackling laughter says:

"I, the Almighty God,

I have made all this,

I have made it for kaisers, czars, and kings."