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"text": "It’s Summer so I hum. / Let bass slip around my runagate tongue. / I have lived watermelonless. / I have scorned my languorous youth. […] O Summer, let me sing a song for you, / Let me be the king of something, / O Summer, let me spread my wings[.]",
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