for Gary Engelman

Stop grinning, headhunter

I've been terribly alone   Can't you read

I need a place to rest hungry bootless mantled

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The pyramids are in control they get wise

Messages become plastic and melt

Like angels overcome by

The city strength and whiteness

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The forests were destroyed

We grew like volcanoes' flora hereabouts

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On the streets of Tripoli city of hum

The tempest the loveliness

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At Maui they danced a   (we can't tell you what)

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Roadblocks school bus Texas you found your way

Over Montezuma's deodorant nuclear family

And Miss Mexican Beer

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Her tail lights flickered...that was Rome

City of fish instincts

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I pulled out of there my dear

The oldest astronaut in Manhattan

I fell down killing me