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it's okay, spread the peanut butter thick.
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you're back home. sleep 'til noon
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and listen to the shape shifters
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in the volvo on your way to borrow
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foreign movies from the library.
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did they teach you french in new york?
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did you learn to shave your face close
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with dial soap and a steak knife?
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how to slickly wipe a sweaty palm
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on your pants thigh
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before shaking hands firm
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with the shadiest show promoters?
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i know it's hard for a single person
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to fold queen size bed sheets.
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you left your reds hat
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in the back seat of mom's volvo.
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i know it's hard for a single person
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to fold queen size bed sheets.
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you left your reds hat
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in the back seat of the volvo.
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she wanted to have it cast in bronze
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to be put on display next to your baby shoes
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and first buck on the t.v. in the den.
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but i knew you'd be back
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to eat a bowl of peanut butter bumpers,
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to jerk off to the lingerie ads
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in the j.c. penny catalogue.
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i knew you'd be back.
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i knew you'd come back,
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to go back to school
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or get a job at the downtown library,
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the health food store,
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painting apartments for ray ritchie,
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or to work at the cigar kiosk
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at kenwood mall.
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it's cool.
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just make sure
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you get out of here by december.
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go to california. go to hawaii.
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cincinnati sucks in the winter,
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you know that like the bump
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on the back of your neck.
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it sucks the leaves from the trees,
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and by the time the snow is melting,
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they always find four or five
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bodies hanging by belts
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from the train trestles,
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or in empty parking lots
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slit wrists, turning what's left
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of the snow into cherry slushy.
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i know,
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all beautiful places
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are prone to natural disaster.
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but being swallowed
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by the earth in manilla
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beats a slow death
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in the midwest.
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last night i practiced holding my breath.
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my record is two minutes thirteen seconds.
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but that was in the swimming pool last summer.
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it's easier in water.
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just do the dead-man's-float.
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let your limbs drift.
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don't count in your head.
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ignore your pumping blood.
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focus on the quiet.
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