And I was pacing myself, trying to make it all last
Squeezing all the life out of a lousy two-day pass
And I had a cold one at the Dragon with some Filipino floor show
And I talked baseball with a lieutenant over a Singapore Sling
And I wondered how the same moon outside over this Chinatown fair
Could look down on Illinois and find you there

god is a place you will wait for the rest of your life

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked

Meh. But not relly.

i lived low enough so the moon wouldn't waste its light on me
what's left in this life that would do the same for me
something must have only loved one of us
to say
get out
get out
get out
get out
while there's still something left of us
get out
get out
get out
get out
get out
get out

It's like deja vu all over again...all over again.

By far, my favorite part of the day today was during recess at substitute teaching when one kid put a Chinese kid in a pair of fake handcuffs and said, "Tell it to the judge, pinko!"

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it's hard to keep track of you,
falling from the sky

we're half awake
in a fake empire

all alone at the end of the day
really tired it's time to hit the hay
it was always good to hear you say
"you never were a drawback"
"you always were an asset"
"you never were a drawback"
"no you weren't"
put away your corset
put away your shoes
put away the old september blues