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a phantom ball trick
and a summer smile
"we'll get 'em next year!"
was october's sentiment
but jackie,
where'd you go?
why'd you let your anger
get the best of you?
don't let dimaggio
or red barber know
that your burdens got too heavy
let the sym-phony
that set brooklyn free
ripple through your blood
tonight
you bleed red
same as the other men
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Alas! Poor notebook!
I knew you well.
Hold my thoughts how abhorred they were.
bridge into the river: say hello to Valhalla for me.
We'll meet again
don't know where
don't know when
but i know we'll meet again some sunny day
meet me on the porch
we'll joke and
kick old times over cigarettes.
discuss Borges
through the caffeine shivers
until we find ourselves in another day
like our fathers
we're just like our mothers
fifty's not so far away
Alas! Poor Patricia!
I knew her well.
This anaphora leaves vacant
space for all i wish i'd said.
where are those lips i kissed so oft?
and where is my sense of "me"?
We'll meet again
don't know where
don't know when
but i know we'll meet again some sunny day
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baker's dozen
01:08
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you’re lost i’m sure
that’s all you’re really good for
playing victim
as though you really were one
it’s tough i’m sure
to have to go to rite aid
oh no you poor thing
you’re always having back pains
if you know where your money is
go ahead invest it
if you think he's not a fighter
go ahead and test it
it's hard i bet
to always be a martyr
your father always had been
but never really was well
guess what i think:
i think if you were educated
instead of spouting nonsense
you wouldn't be so dreadful
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passage to india
from the shores of israel
you told me forster was a beach read
but now i'll drown my self in the proselytizing coasts
and put this squabble to rest
and you'll sing:
OoOoOoO
what a way to go!
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bill thomas killman
01:55
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I went to Wichita today
and I wrote another letter
another girl, another letter
I think I’ll send it this time
They said my name today
the one that I created
it’s the moment I’ve awaited
now I’m finally on the news
I went to church today
and I wrote another letter,
another girl, another letter
I’ll write you one more time
I went to jail today
and now, Paula, you’ll be better
another girl, another letter
we all run out of time
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mobile fighter g gundam
02:11
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Underneath Fenway lights you once told me
"everything is falling apart"
beer in one hand
and vial in the other
i said "I guess you have to suffer for art"
and you said "Oh."
Took a hit from your bowl
your sleeves fell down
saw you had a couple of scars
"the cats scratched me last week, I jumped a fence last night, got my arm caught between a couple of cars"
and I said "Oh."
(Burning, burning at the twilight, kill myself to know I'm still alive/Drinking, drinking in the morning, fuck my life up know I'm still alive)
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woke up in a basement
in a hospital in maine
stitches in your sides
claw marks on your belly
nurse from the other room
he says "it’s self inflicted”
why’d you want to die?
please write back soon
dear friend i write you back
with impetus: remorse
not for me for you
and all the shit you went through
no longer in the basement
they had to let me go
i’ve thrown out all my razors
i thought that you should know
i thank you for your presence
you were what got me through
auf wiedersehen my friend
to the boy that you once knew
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FORGET YOUR HOPES
THEY WERE WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE
IN THE FIRST PLACE
forget your backyards
forget your house
forget your home
you're with me now
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