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Rosebud Matches
Gonna tell you one time, pretty baby Just so you c’ain’t say you ain’t been told Coming through your room just like Boo Radley Bustin’ up your chifforobe You keep coming back to…
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Your Eyes, Your Hair, Your Teeth
Oh, how the orthodontists must’ve wooed you parents. Relentlessly, by phone, by mail. «Just popping in to say hello is all. Yes, yes, just checking in on the little one, you know…»
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Aspiration
Aspiration has several meanings. Most commonly it’s used to refer to human desire. We look at pictures of the things we want to be, to have and the
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A Shoe Story
There are 4 types of shoe-lovers, it seems to me. There is the shoe-lover who has, at last count, lost count.
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Ars Poetica
To get a really good one you have to drive to another state, South Carolina will work, and bring it back home with you. The warning label
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The Beltway Blues (My Tifton Flower)
Set me up on the tracks, man I’m so down at the mouth I’m Southern and I’m goin’ South Yeah, I’m certain that I’m goin’ south
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My Pappy’s Harp
You were 83 the first time I heard it cry for your Silver-Haired Daddy, and you were 83
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Your Heart’s a Jumble
Your heart’s a jumble, baby, now You got me figgrin’ it out I don’t know why I pray for Sunday Hopin’ I’ll get some peace ‘Round this house
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Left Piled by the Tracks
Old spark plugs and the grease that came with them, brown leaves still on the limb, a poster of Skynard
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6 AM a la Gare Saint-Lazare
Au revoir! Au revoir! ma petite amie! A bientôt, a bientôt! Je t’aime! Je t’aime!
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The Andalusian Blues
My mama’s got me washin’ up My daddy’s callin’ my teachers up There’s a wolf sleepin’ in my granny’s bed And I’m lost in the woods with a basketful of darvocet
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Jane Hath a Way
I’ve always loved you Jane Hathaway I’ve always loved your ideas of the appropriate the way you stand as a frumpty pillar of sanity
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My Old Drinking Park
Vodka won’t sit still, vodka acts. You don’t know it but it’s always trying to make its way back to the old country.
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