Broadway

The Smart Gun

The Smart gun's much too smart. The NRA

Wants a phone that anybody may

Use to blow a grammar school away.

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Broadway

I can't stand Hammerstein and Hart was crazy.

Hammerstein and arrogant conceit!

Sondheim said that Larry Hart was lazy.

Who the hell is Sondheim to repeat?
Larry Hart was brilliant in defeat.

Death came early. And for god, complete.

Broadway once a proving ground for songs,

Called golden, died in 1943.

All the human blemishes and wrongs

Were put on stage for anyone to see.

Broadway now where everyone belongs

Has given up its happy dancing feet.

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Le jeu

I did a lousy thing and lost his love.

So many lousy things were done to me.

Why them, why him, why me? Why must I pay?

Where was my mind? In penury and need.

Where was my heart? I was ridiculous.

Like the jerk in Jersey, where was love?

She held the ace, though anyone could play it.

Thank you for your love and flattery.

The jury nods for that in approbation.

Up the righteous jury! Next time let

Her love someone who warrants her approval.

I did not kill Christ. So go away.

The lover is the sympathetic role,

The hero. The beloved has to play.

God bless the victim, and a lover's game.

I'm sick of coffee, poetry and love.

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Art

Like the man who slaps his brow

And cries, “I have a thought!”
Involuntary – whence it come?
And also – what is art?

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