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    Peter and the Wolf and You

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    Never play Peter and the Wolf on the harmonica. It will only serve to attract the attention of your neighbors, and the wolf. If it sounds so beautiful,

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    On Golden Retention Pond

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    Damn, Mario it’s a lotta hard work trying to relax around this place.

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    Old Kolmanskop

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    How I miss Old Kolmanskop. Sure, it could be a little sandy and require more sweeping than most want to do, but

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    Oh, the Sweetness

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    stolen from Casey Bryan After the first frost, the sweetness, after it’s all burned off. Your horse took me to the ground and I didn’t mind it

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    Now That I’ve Used Up All My French

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    for Ericka A bouquet of bisous. I have no idea what to do with “nous” or “vous.”

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    Notre Dame

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    And then the pyramids fell over. Angkor Wat turned to dust and blew away. The Taj Mahal got stolen in the night. And, your heart didn’t make it through the day.

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    Nonsense About Alice for Philip

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    (or Vice Versa) Alice, I love you what do you say we just kind of Lewis Carroll our way out of this place?

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    No One’s Sure

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    No one’s sure exactly what to do with you. If you’re Italian

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    natural history–

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    natural history— I propose to her in the astor turret

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    Most of What I Know About Spain

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    for Stetson Kennedy Most of what I know about Spain I learned from Senora De Cubas and Garcia Lorca. Caroline, who tried so valiantly to teach us that Ser describes a condition. Estar,…

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    mockingbirds–

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    mockingbirds-- the more that settle on the page the better --June 2017

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    miles of water

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    miles of water from this shore to the next something to swim to --May 21, 2017

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    Michael Fracasso

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    You ever wonder why it is you stopped listening to your favorite band?

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    The Little Corners

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    Forsyth and Julia Monroe and Laura Pearl and Fern Adam and Jefferson When the streets of my city come together, they make little corners of love. Regardless of circumstance. The way you curve.…

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    Marvelous Tricks with the Language

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    Oh, there’s a million things you could do fall in love in Texas fall out of love somewhere in New Mexico

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    Los Rinconcitos

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    Forsyth y Julia Monroe y Laura Pearl y Fern Adam y Jefferson

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    Linda Thompson

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    I want to listen to Richard Thompson but, right now, that’s about the height of my ambition. Not even sure I’ve got the energy for Linda. Yeah, I do, too. What the hell…

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    light years–

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    light years-- the distance between stardust and endust --August 28, 2017

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    Letting Go Near Cheyenne

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    I suppose you and a few of your best hands could saddle up and ride a thousand miles of fence-line

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    Let Me Romance You

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    Hey, I’ve got an idea why don’t I come over and have a few sleep on your couch eat all your food smoke in the house

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