Games

Games

Let's play games. Tell me I'm a queer.

I will be enraged and cast at you

That you're a nigger. You will box my ear.

It's what phony gamey people do.

Republicans and Christians in full sail

Will shoot us with a gun, and then they'll nail

Us to a cross of splintery old wood,

And feel they're very very very good.

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Cold

I woke up as cold as down a mine,

And in my semi-conscious head, this line:

I don't love you. We are only friends.

Considering what yesterday portends.

I have a kitten and his name is Fred.

He sleeps all night perhaps upon my bed.

This could make the coldest bastard care.

When I wake up I always find him there.

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Meaning

Johnny was one of those people

Who knows what you ought to feel.

Evince any other emotion,

He'll kick a big bruise on your heel.

I am unable to sleep,

So I just lie here and sigh,

Flat on the family bed,

They're all so unwilling to die.

Far under heaven on earth's

A portentous princess who won't love,

While lost in the constellations

Are the souls of the poets who don't love.

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Being Loved

Anyone can be loved.

It only takes good looks,

A charming disposition,

Or glibly savoir faire.

But to make somebody happy

Is given by the angels.

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Walking Out Of Denny's

The moon's a little wedge of cantaloupe

Hanging in the mystery of night.

The music is beginning to affect me,

Perhaps because my circumstance is right.

I always wanted wit, from youth, not half.

Now all that I can do is make you laugh.

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