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Down
at the end of Charters Street
In
a dim-lit part of town,
There
stands the old Alhambra and
They’re
going to pull it down.
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He
was leaning against the wall, backed up
And
staring through fumes of gin and whiskey,
Glaring
at all the toffs, dressed up
And
rav..
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She
started wearing the corpse paint when
She’d
just turned seventeen,
Renamed
herself Pandora, though
Her
real name was Jean,
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They
say that I came up screaming when
I
surfaced, near the boat,
Distraught,
they said, eyes gleaming
Thrashing
around, could barely..
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The
store had been closed for a month or more,
The
Receivers opened the door,
To
auction off all the fittings there,
Whatever
stood o..
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They
call it the Tall-Ship Pier, because
It
hasn’t been used since then,
Its
timbers rotted and barnacled,
And
black since I do..
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There
wasn’t a lot of love to lose
Between
Joe Brown and Brent,
Their
farms lay either side of a creek
That
now lay dry, and sp..
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He
knew what he wanted to say to her,
He
knew what he wanted to do,
He’d
step right up to her open door
And
he’d quickly ..
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‘Cata,
pick up the children, then
We’ll
all away to the woods,
They
say there’s a mighty army come
To
steal our hom..
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I
was doing research in Hubei
Where
they executed Yu,
That
deity soldier glorified
By
Buddhists, Taoists too,
I
sat perusing manu..
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