| Goddamn teachers, never appreciating what I do, never looking me in the eye,
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| and the children, just
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| as bad, cleaning up their mess, throwing food just to spite me, chanting, «Mister Frye, the janitor guy,
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| Mister Frye with the lazy eye,» and smiling, mopping, I just say, «Now children, you must never throw
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| your trash in the side garden,» and they do it anyway, but would they if they
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| knew it’s been me all along,
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| when they sing, «Mister Frye, the toilet doesn’t work, we can’t flush, you stupid jerk,»
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| years and years
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| I’ve stopped the water, stealing all their turds, carrying them inside my
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| pockets, planting them in soil,
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| tending my garden, growing it green and beautiful, something no one can take
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| from me, those shitty
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| fucking brats, forty fucking years, and now that tree is more than strong
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| enough, and will they close the
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| school, what will happen when they find me hanging from the bough,
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| will the kids sing if I can’t hear
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| them, «Mister Frye, dead and blue, Mister Frye, his pockets full of poo»? |