Lakey Teasdale
Red Rover
Red Rover, red rover,
won't you come over.
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Past gingerbread house,
yellow rumped warbler
(dendroica coronata),
wide-hipped ghouls,
lanterns, Guy Fawkes.
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Flying, reach landfall.
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Couple the train,
four am track.
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Suffering, suffering
oh, oh, la, la.
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Avon searider,
Johnson outboard, trailer,
doctor takes sabre title.
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Taing of Oxan, Roeberry.
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Absolutely ridiculous.
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Leave you with suffering, Jack. Oh, filling in gaps,
number of apartments in the building, thinks I.
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Something is missing all right.
Dramatic fillers? Background noise?
Much more effective solution, pity he took it out.
The rub, struck him at once, lengthy tautology.
Ground breaking overture.
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Can't remember lyrics, or terms.
Formally balanced,
musical fantasia,
symphonic poems.
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From sublime to miscalculated.
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What do you think?
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The piece continues, quite literally.
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Unspeakable.
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Think of the ring of it.
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Told him, fuck this for a game of soldiers.
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Beginning of his career, before Django.
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Who's playing? Stands out a mile.
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Wonderful story,
photographs,
silver violin.
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No one allowed access or key, incomparable style,
first person, early research, account of events.
Relate to nineteen seventy eight, troop in, form a circle.
Hear it again, on demand.
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What do you get when you reach the destination?
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Numerous theories on firewalking,
St John's ambulance in attendance,
cover of darkness, write your own death,
faculty conference of work, methodology,
altos supporting, backing up sorcerer,
by and large tormenting apprentice.
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Less flack, Jack,
signed,
Roberto.
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(softly)
Thought you were trying to kill me.
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Triangulis, duly welcome latest violinist.
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He taught everybody.
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Moved into romantic liaison.
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Beautiful lover, great friend.
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Goethe thinks
he is the living/dead
end\die another day.
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Extemporise,
keep regular hours,
marriage is well,
well-managed
in stratosphere.
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(Props up bass).