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I was wallowing in squalor when a note came through the mail |
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From a light-fingered acquaintance who'd been lingering in jail |
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He had served a year of sentence when the fools had set him free |
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And he'd had a good idea he said he'd like to put to me |
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I said come on then, let's have it, there's a twinkle in his eye |
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He says let me put it this way, have you ever wondered why |
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The rich have so much money when, if push should come to crunch |
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You can only be in one room and only eat one lunch |
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A cogent observation, but I didn't have the time |
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I presumed this exposition must be leading to a crime |
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He said wait a precious moment I am trying to set the scene |
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If you liberate your mind my friend you'll soon see what I mean |
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He said have you ever wondered how a horse becomes a glue? |
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Or how my uncle's pencil reached a garden in Peru? |
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And have you tried valerian, the side-effects are strange |
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There is no such thing as accident, for everything's arranged |
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I said listen friend your time inside has clearly flipped your mind |
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These are merely hypotheticals I haven't got the time |
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If it's blackmailing on Snapchat or a hold-up count on me |
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But this claptrap that you're spouting now just sounds like poetry |
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Do not be so narrow-minded, my erstwhile accomplice trilled |
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I've had lots of time for poetry it's left me rather thrilled |
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I've been reading the New York School: Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch |
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And they've given me more pleasure than a thousand dirty jokes |
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Well he's published by Macmillan now, he got a big advance |
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Which he spent on buying a farmhouse in a pleasant part of France |
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His first book won a Pulitzer, he's up for a Nobel |
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They say you can't change human nature but he's doing rather well |
