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Comes the time when it’s later
and onto your table the headwaiter
puts the bill, and very soon after
rings out the sound of lively laughter—
Picking up change, hands like a walrus,
and a face like a barndoor’s,
and a head without any apparent size,
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So that’s you, man,
or me. I make it as I can,
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any night, and no one in sight,
but then, well, there she is,
old friend Liz—
And she opens the door of her cadillac,
I step in back,
and we’re gone.
She turns me on—
There are very huge stars, man, in the sky,
and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple pie,
with a gob of white, white ice cream on top of it,
and I eat it—
Slowly. And while certainly
they are laughing at me, and all around me is racket
of these cats not making it, I make it
in my wicker basket.
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“……..but, we are criminally minded betrayers of our own country and President”.
But nothin’ !
Obammy kilt hundreds of MidEast critters without prosecution, including one american dude, with drone strikes.
I saw a cartoon with Salami’s severed hand, complete with ring, and holding a bag of Obama cash. The trouble for the dems is: we remember. We remember everything you sacks of shit have done. And, we are pissed.
But, However….
OK, what’s the deal here, do these people get a “media honey do” list every morning that they must memorize and then go out and smear their greasy mugs all over over as many vid cams as possible?
If not, they are doing a pretty good simulation that they do.
This has been going on throughout the Trump reign and every time it goes the same way – mass puppetry.
And this is what suffices for leaders running this country?
Hope you don’t mind, and I don’t give a shit if you do, I’ll have none of it.
Make sure to pick up a copy of my new book on amazon, “Finding Freedom In Prison”, thanx, Mgt.
Ghost nails it, as usual.
Who is the left wing-pinko-marxist-commie trash that writes up these lame-ass talking points then disseminates it to the Demo-pukes for regurgitation? What a bunch of hollow sock puppets.
If Obama had zapped this Saladvanilla puke, the media would have been praising him for it. Obama gave the go-sign for SEAL Team 6 to go zap Binladen and there were no concerted objections to how it was done. As Americans we were unified in knowing he met Jesus. FFS.
…but he’s dead.
The but people emerged after 9/11 and enraged me.
ghost, I guess you don’t listen to Rush. He does this all the time compiling examples of leftist garbage mouthpieces bleating the exact same slogans.
Read both of Rush’s books in the early 90’s and by the late 90’s I couldn’t listen to his 1 sided grandstanding any more. The criminals are on both sides and down the middle. I haven’t listened to him in many years.
In the bigger picture the band RUSH’s amazing drummer Neil Peart lost the fight with brain cancer this past Tues. My favorite rock band of all time.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/
… But! We cannot accept that this a win for President Trump!
If he did this then it is a bad thing, probably will cause Climate Change…. or something else that’s bad, and as soon as we figure out what that is we’ll impeach him for it!