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    Here

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    Here we are trapped. Which is funny because

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    Voicemail

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    Dude, your voicemail is full. You are so popular. Who doesn’t want

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    Lyrics #452

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    You got the paper And I got the plates, honey You got the paper And I got the plates, honey

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    the somme inside you–

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    the somme inside you-- war photographer --February 9, 2019

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    Direction

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    I was so tired I was arguing with myself about which way was east and which way was west all the way there all the way to wherever it is I am. --February…

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    The Future of Vintage

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    It’s so hard to predict the future of vintage. What’s going to hang on to its value? What’s going to lose its value completely only to regain it, completely? You build models: Time…

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    Run What You Brung
    (a.k.a. Old Mrs. Jones)

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    Old Mrs. Jones she wished she’d had a daughter but, she had two sons they wouldn’t do nothin’ for her her man said he loved her the last time he saw her

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    Lyric #147

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    I’m gonna throw my phone in the river I’m gonna throw my phone in the river I’m gonna throw my phone in the river and the river gonna call --January 27, 2019

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    the one

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    the one that got away-- dicey at best --January 26, 2019

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    Law and Order

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    Ah, the things that try to go together. PB and J. The Captain and Tennille.

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    Disappear

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    Berries the birds take, the very end of a leaf just the very end falling, earlier. That’s how things start to disappear. --January 22, 2019

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    Customer Service

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    All you want to do is talk to an actual human. And all actual humans want to do is

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    The Elephants of Style

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    We drink the same water from the same river, fellow elephants of style. Miles from here,

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    I’ll Wander Nowhere Else

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    Lead me to your meadow, green. I’ll wander nowhere else. --January 6, 2019

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    For Anna

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    They aren’t likely to designate this an Historic Place, but, I will. I’ll capture as much as I can

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    A Good Plan Scattered

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    breadcrumb               breadcrum b b                                               b

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    I wish I could float

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    I wish I could float through the dark streets alone no one beside me no one in the back --December 1, 2018

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    How Cold Was It?

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    It was so damn cold I had to wrap my hands around a lightbulb. It was so damn cold my fingers froze

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    the taste lingering

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    the taste lingering in the back of your mouth burnt sugar --November 17, 2018

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    Stan Lee

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    Let us live to 95 and let the webs we weave go on forever. --November 12, 2018

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