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Sleeping late, I |
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hear the sad horns of labor trucks sigh. |
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My neighbor walks by, |
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high heels click dry |
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like half-a-proud |
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horse down Brook. |
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I hear somebody's |
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babbling I mistook |
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for a cavalry, |
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whispering "victory" |
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to the sparks in their kindling. |
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But all their green woods |
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wet, and unmet as of yet |
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by the gases of flame, |
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pressing against the pending |
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physics of my passed down last |
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name. Living in the tear between |
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two spaces, condemned; |
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in one of the many places |
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you're not, I am. |
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Hiding from my friends |
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in the bathroom at 'ThriftTown' |
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to write this tune down. |
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Today after lunch, |
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I got sick and blew chunks |
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all over my new shoes |
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in a lot behind 'Whole Foods'. |
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This is a new kind of blues. |
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And what about losing |
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limb or loved one in a duel |
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dissatisfies you of seems just? |
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As a kid I did not shit my pants much; |
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why start now with this stuff? |
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And I do not bluff, second caller |
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gets bit by a dog or Jeff Dahmer. |
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Kisses or stitches? |
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No mitt for these pitches. |
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Lone Pone one, |
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master of the cheap pun. |
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If I'm not raw, |
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I'm just a bit underdone. |
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But I'd be O.K., cool as a rail, |
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if they'd just let us have |
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healthfood in hell. |
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Good heaven's background radiation |
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and the black arts of waiting. |
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Not the same since I switched my hair- |
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part and started shaving. Got hexed-- |
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my hidden hair-gone corners. |
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Oh, I'll never be a joiner, |
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life long local foreigner, I. |
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Raw-lung, homegrown fake |
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in coed naked choir; |
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second tenor, highest rise, |
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blessed clever compromister. |
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I'll be proudly mouthing |
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'watermelon' every song. |
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I put the phone to my ear |
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but all I hear's a dial tone. |
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Will they map my skull |
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and wrap my bones |
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when my wig is gone? |
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No. I'll go unknown |
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by torpedo or Crohn's, |
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only those evil live to see |
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their own likeness in stone. |