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By Jack Joseph Smith
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themselves, hit the ground, But it's not only the grass of Mount Lebanon I have
used as my battle grounds the downtown streets and the barren cement have also
been a part of my nighttime pleasure, One night they stripped me bare and worked
me over ina Eee they threw me in a dark cell, as I laughed at them and
pretended | was Mari fa Brando, My old man hits harder than that, That's pretty
original, @rdanagas ¢
We both laughed on the sick side of a smiles His face was intense and waited to
speak, but I went ong
O'Dendy and his absurdity, Who gives a fuck is his statement about himself, And
he looks upon the world as someone to shove it tog The world ie one big cut, Men
and women with their pants down, and the men turned around, The whiskey goes dom
so fast, so fast, My head is lonely, I took the richest of Mount Lebanon girle
away from her husband, during a time when they were killing each others .— had no
rights You probably heard about its It dosen't matters She is so beautiful and
afraid with her two children ahd allj Her father is so rich, He bought them a
fancy home and a cars Gave him a job, and paid the bills, He threw parties, It
a heppened on New Years eve, The power could not be cast asides Anything for a
moment of song, and now I have sinned gravely. They have no place to go, and they
will never touch agains Where did the father thin he was taking them with his
moneys Worse than decadfence panifi Death, The spirit of booze and false laughters
My mirror is with me when 1 am walkings No cry from my remb@ling is unheard in its
distant weeping, ‘that does she do now with her eyes arping under her stright
strend of unsmoothed hairy No love to touch her, I have been her mediwa for oblivion,
I sometimes look around under the womb of my covers and wonder where I amg Three days
on a drunk and you just can't see yourself begin any kind of begimaings All through