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A common language

Woo, woo let’s go,

Hey, hey, hey

Aerobics on Pier 1,

Not on the sidewok,

You sit and eat your big bureedo

 

I can’t do this right now

Like, I’ve gotta see my therapist,

I’m on the sidewok right now,

Eating my big bureedo on the sidewok

With all that land of the free, home of the brave

Madness, fear, eyes closed pretend end

 

If you really close your eyes tight

You can still see the dream

That started with a film star ending,

And now a menacing mystery,

Oh say can you see with those eyes closed

Walkin on the sidewok,

Devouring that big bureedo

 

Now stare at yourself in the bar mirror,

Watch yourself get slammed

Talking to Tina from Bolder Colorado

Who finds you awesome in an awesome don’t fuck me way,

Where to next when you’re awesome?

Out on the sidewok eating that awesome big bureedo,

It’s like awesome

 

But you only manage to keep one step ahead of those teeth

Gnashing at your fanny,

Pinching your awesome fanny on the sidewok,

Keep on running or you’ll be consumed

Like that awesome big bureedo

 

I avoid them both under those

Stinking shit love addictions

That glue them to the sidewok,

Begging that awesome big bureedo,

Am starving here, fuck you bitch!

Fuck you on the sidewok

Behind that life cluttered RV,

Adventures long gone, stuck on the sidewok

 

Yet I still feel your spirit

That spits back at how it is,

Swears and cusses and spits on the sidewok,

Spitting out that forced fed awesome big bureedo,

You big beautiful asshole,

You keep on believing with those teeth in your fanny

And I love you for that,

For fighting and squeezing every ounce of that dream

 

God bless Americans, God Bless their grace

And give them the strength,

Strength to hold hands together,

Lift themselves off the sidewok,

Be as awesome as they are,

Like an awesome beautiful big bureedo

◄ Love your life scar

The express bus ►

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raypool

Sun 28th Feb 2016 17:20

HI Jim. This looks so good on paper as well as live, and just has so much penetrating power that America is encapsulated in its almost Hollywood presentation. You can feel both resentment and incredulity pouring off the page, plus of course that big serving of semi - rant. John Betjeman it is not!

Wonderful stuff.

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