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Hanks Banks

So what, big whoops
I couldn't give two poops
for this fad of gross pretension
a cipher of dark invention
silly folks will rush to see
the brown-stained code of da Vinci
supposed secrets clandestine
teased as religiously unclean
quixotic quest for the Holy Grail
is nothing but a shaggy dog's tail
perhaps a junction of Jesus and Mary
they may have had a baby named Harry
And shouldn't th...

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grifters   knights of the realm   the code

Career development

It started with filthy Cossacks

vodka fuelled with much betrayal

 

Back into Malaysia

somewhat blurred by Mau Mau screams

burn the fucking forest down

we’ll kill them while they dream

 

Then all the way from The Falls

bodies sealed in Glenshane peat 

 

Then Friedrichstraße

lucky strikes

and feet cold stamping streets

those Russian alcoholics

so unguarde...

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Empire   knights of the realm   licence to kill   treachery   villainy

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