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ZEST FOR LIFE, by                    
First Line: I know the dream
Last Line: "we call it the ""zest for life."


I know the dream
Of the dead Greek gods.
The mad, sick souls, cursed
With eternal nightmare.
Their incubus is this world.
This crazy man-made world, --
'Tis but the tortured memory
Of crazy man-made gods.

Oh, where is the cure
For the pitiable gods? --
Since they and the world,
Do not exist, nor ever did,
Save as universal fungi, --
A growth of infinity.

Now, on this evolutionary plant
A modern mistletoe is grafted.
We call it the "Zest for Life."





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