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    A Pound Called Malice (Or Pet’s Entertainment)

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    Every time Paul hits that note and, then, I think when the bass-line kicks in Bisquick’s ear twitches a little. And that’s why I love Paul Weller...

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    Hell

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    “May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the devil knows you’re dead.” If I were to die. I mean, if it were me...

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    Something Southern in the Mind

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    Keep going it’s back there it’s back there somewhere through the pines. -- April 5, 2019

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    Rom-Com

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    I don’t care how good the banter is or how sunny it is or how pretty she and the park are, you are not in a proper...

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    Trading Vices

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    Since, I’m known for my prodigious will-power and not for my addictive personality, I just put ‘em down,...

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    Things You Ask Your Cousin

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    Should I continue to fuck things up? Should I keep trying to unfuck up the things I’ve fucked up?

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    On a Semi-Related Note

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    You can find plenty of stories that end just the way you want them to. Synthesized and happily harmonized. That’s why

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    Breakfast

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    Baby, how many mornings do I have to ask you how your breakfast is until you understand I’m not really asking so much about your breakfast? --March 31, 2019

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    Yeah, I Didn’t Think So

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    Anyone ever put on a production of Hamlet, in its entirety, in front of a security camera in back of a truck stop? Really? Olivier? Brannagh?

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    Irrevocable Trust

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    Irrevocable Trust: Item 1 Joseph, my brother, I love you and you finished college, so, I hereby

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    Guapa

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    You remind me of someone, but, she was from Ecuador. --March 30, 2019

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    Teapot

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    with Anna Reynaud I feel like I’m a teapot and I’m whistlin’. Like someone sat me on a stove, it’s hot, I’m a teapot and I’m just whistlin’. -- arch 30, 2019

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    One More Minute

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    I swear, just sing like one more minute of Jolene. One more minute and I am yours. --March 29, 2019

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    Lyric #1429

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    If I turn 50, now, baby Then 51 is coming soon If I turn 50, now, baby Then 51 is coming soon But, I’m Still so good In the morning And I’m pretty…

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    Hey, Dee

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    You guys sell great beer and cigs, and I have no complaints about your chili dogs. They are spectacular. But, to be completely honest,

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    spanish bayonet–

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    spanish bayonet-- the rabbits ought to run us through --March 28, 2019

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    whole continents

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    whole continents heavy with flowers springtime --March 27, 2019

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    cherry blossoms…

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    cherry blossoms… the tree itself superfluous -- March 27, 2019

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    The Captain

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    It was an amazing feeling, sitting there, down by 30, but, with a pocketful of time-outs. To stop all action? Delay the inevitable?

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    Nina Never Will

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    The rest of us, I guarantee, are gonna let you down. Nina never will. Everything she ever promised is on record

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