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By Jack Joseph Smith
And I went to war under the Southerrn Cross
I hoboed and laid block
I did really well
with my study of insects
And I was at the University of Arizona
with that girl from E.. Island also
I loved Cuba; I gave up a boat
for those guys, and a girl I think
I've seen poetry on fire,
and I put it out; just for
the generations
I went up and asked for some shorts,
in a negro village, cause my jeans
had been ripped in the back, while
I refused to tell them where I'd beem
And I put three solid years into watching
animal shows while drinking that Vocka
Had one kid;