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Well, why not
me, I
reasoned (no surprise to friends and loved ones,
As
I have alwaysfancied my time on this spinning patch of rock
To ..
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It left the depot relatively unencumbered;
Passenger service having been discontinued the winter before,
So the engine and the few sad c..
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His oaths
were all crimson passion,
(Oh,
fleeting, evanescent boy!)
But were
simply passing fashion,
Discarded
like some broken toy
..
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Oh, we’d talked of other lives in other places,
But where would we have gone, anyway?
(It was rural Pennsylvania in the thirti..
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When you appear (as we all
shall, no doubt)
Before the oldest judge in the
world,
Take care to notice his
appearance;
You’ll s..
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See, you’ve got tohave that moon-June
thing;
Hard-coded into our DNA, after
all,
But if you stop there and say Well, here it is,
..
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We’d known him as Three-Desks
Tommy,
Highly imaginative monicker
Deriving from his decidedly
unimaginative first name
And the fa..
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Once the pros decided he wasn’t worth the aggravation any
more
(Seven feet of
trouble, coaches used to say if his name came up)
Man ..
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i. In By Twos, Out By Ones.
You could probably fool yourself
into thinking it was simply some rambling ranch home,
Though the t..
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There was plenty cats
who could snatch a quarter offa backboard,
They used to say up at Happy Warrior, but the Goat was the only one
Who could ..
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