| Blessed be the doctor
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| Blessed be the nurse.
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| Blessed be the coachman
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| Who put me in the hearse.
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| Blessed be the blessings and
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| Blessed be the curse.
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| Rattled from the sediment
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| Old bones around the settlement.
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| Tell who passed out the medicine
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| The dose was much too strong.
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| He goes to bed bereft and berated
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| And rests his head in the hands of
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| The over rated.
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| Sweating bullets in the faculty lounge,
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| Sensing treason they’re not waiting around;
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| On the first bus out of the town
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| They’re playing movies that they’ve already seen.
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| The jewelry advances as the gums recede,
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| The devil goes out dancing on the angels preceived needs,
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| Please go easy on me.
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| Cheap sex with a dicount broker-
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| Cop’s walkie-talkie squawks breaker-breaker.
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| «We got to take her down to the station
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| She says that that broker broke her off.»
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| Read the text at the ticker tape parade-
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| The subtext is that someone’s getting paid off.
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| Check the checks at the ticker tape parade-
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| Pay stubs of the people who’ve been laid off.
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| Insurance can’t cover what the world exposed-
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| Open nerves.
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| Touching toes to stretch,
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| The A.C. made us retch.
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| Can you conceive of
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| Working for the
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| Emperor’s new clothes?
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| Please go easy on me. |