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A Wicker Basket
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,
nothing but two eyes—
So that’s you, man,
or me. I make it as I can,
I pick up, I go
faster than they know—
Out the door, the street like a night,
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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Japanese: not nuked nearly enough! No kamikaze pilots coming out of this generation. F##k Japan hard.
Maybe it helps that I don’t understand a word, but-
It beats the hell out of Justin Beiber and/or Eminem!
Also- the guy seems a lot more masculine than either of those losers, and definitely more than the ex-Bruce Jenner, for whatever that’s worth! (Full disclosure: I’m a Babymetal fan. Accept no substitutes!)
As was pointed out elsewhere, the girls may not, in fact, be qualified economists. Then again, Paul Krugman is.
Frank Zappa did it before time began.
pbird, so maybe the guy in the video is the idiot bastard son?
Nice one, Harry. Trivial trivia level: expert.
JWM
“Mr Big Shot raise our wages.”
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Quit your fuckin whining, grow a pair, start your own thing, keep ALL the coin.
It’s the easiest thing in the world to do here in the merry old land of oz but nobody has any nutz and all the lazy asses can do is piss and moan and beg. I got no sympathy for people unwilling to help themselves.
It beats the hell out of Justin Beiber and/or Eminem!