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He
sat up under the gables
Over
the second floor of the house,
And
peered on out from his fables
Like
he was playing cat and mouse,
..
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‘I’m
just going down for cigarettes,’
Tom
called to his wife, Marie,
Her
voice was muffled as she called back
From
..
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I’m
sitting alone in my easy chair
And
the lights are turned down low,
Listening
to the midnight hour
As
it chimes, so long and..
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When
Caesar strode out from the waves to this shore
With
a Legion, their breastplates in line,
He
came uninvited, his purpose was war
..
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Blue
Marue was a flinty soul
Who’d
never suffer a fool,
Handy
at using his fists, he’d made
A
mark at his Junior School,
..
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It
was Sunday morning, early,
I
was going to go to church,
Re-establish
with my Maker
Some
connection, through a verse,
We
would ..
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He’d
had recurring headaches
Since
the age of fifty-three,
But
ten years further on
He
said they’d stopped, quite sudden..
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We
were sitting, reminiscing
Of
the civil war in Spain,
Where
my uncle fought for Franco,
Never
saw his home again.
There
was Joe..
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I
woke one day to hear them say
That
they’d atom bombed Iran,
There
was no more threat from them, they said,
There
was no more ..
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From
the Minappartamento
In
the middle of the night,
We
walked the old Piazza
Lit
by just a single light,
I
could see the Madonni..
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