Napowrimo 2022
DAY #30
BLOOMING
Light shortens daily
Leaping forward the clock ticks
The suns set madly
Magically the tide comes in
Brown Sugar beach is blooming
Skies blue and cloudless
Two suns are hotter than one
Blooming daffodils
Frozen as chocolate ice cream
Even the icehouse is hot
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #29
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
THE LURGY
They think that it's all over but it's not even started yet the lurgy political football ugly as sin they want to drag you down and bury you somewhere in the deep blue yonder once they start killing they can't stop they say everybody kills somebody sometime even if it's only a fly but they don't stop there they load the Kalashnikov's up and start firing at anything that moves often their own troops undisciplined as they are it's dog eat dog out there if you can find one that's got four legs and still breathing if you can't get fresh meat to eat it's those rusty tins in the backpack and the stale bread that you wouldn't eat unless you were starving and they are nobody's talking about infected bats now but whole cities in different countries are still locked down thanks to the lurgy we thought they brought
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #28
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
THE WAR ON NEED
Cue camera action stop get back start again there's more celluloid on the cutting room floor than loaded up to this film we're going to go digital if we waste any more and the profits will be cut by half or even more but none of these things will matter much if we can't overcome the war on need the war on greed the war that's banging down our door if we can't afford the fuel to run the vehicles we have and the cooking and heating appliances in our homes what will we do how will we cook the food that we can ill afford how will we heat just one room in our abode how will we find work when millions are on the dole when we don't have the right skills to fulfil the needs of the major employers and what happens when those same companies fold
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DAY #27
BUBBLY AS CHAMPAGNE
UNFINISHED POEM (part three)
Cinderella's sisters turned up again today riding motorbikes
Four up on a two seater 125 and four more in the sidecar
Tricycles are a big thing in the provinces for transportation
They also have a number of cargo versions for carrying goods
I stick to riding a solo Honda fifty goes like a rocket
I've been riding it for the last four years in the Philippines top bike
I was thinking of the European writers in the Pacific
Writers and painters artists musicians and other innovators
That spent time and/or ended their days on one of the Islands out here
How long are you going to Singapore for for as long as it takes
Twenty minutes sitting on the runway waiting for the plane to go
The transfer to Manila smooth as the proverbial baby's bot
The security guards at the stores carry guns and search everyone
On the way in and on the way out they smile at me and wave me through
Security Filipino style okay Joe they say okey doke
I like my sugar fermented presented in a bottle of beer
Water of course is the essential fluid that we all need daily
Soda's so called don't do it for me Coke can't cut it inside or out
The beer Kubo opened earlier every day beer before breakfast
They picked the fresh fruit from the trees and cooked it on an open fire
Chicken beef squid and king prawns finger foods palutan for drinking beer
Reinventing the sundial handbags at six o' clock two bob a pop
They knock a tree down to make some wine and a Carolina Sofa
Once inside with the dregs to drink and an empty bottle of plonkish
At the pre-nup disco and they all turn up Cinderella's sisters
We sleep it off on the sofa that they made in the yard of the house
That Jack built and we turn around and we all fall down in unison
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Napowrimo 2022
DAY #26
HOSE
Hose was at the airport
to fly to Singapore
he took a brown paper bag
and
a box tied up with string
with
everything in to begin a new life
yeah
It might have been worse of course
it could have been his wife
with all her little bits squashed up
into that minute brown box
tied up with string
What did you do
to your wife Hose
what did you do
do you really think that
you got away with
the perfect crime
because
there's no such thing
you'll get caught some time
and when they catch you
they'll put you in the clink
and
they will find you Hose
When they find her body
on the Essex shore in the
City of Southend on Sea
they'll come looking for you
you see Hose like me
they know that you killed her
There won't be many
gin slings at Raffles Hotel
all that insurance money
will be reclaimed as well
Some say that you buried her
in a shallow grave
others that you buried her alive and
shovelled concrete
onto her head and
nobody heard her scream
but everybody knows that she's dead
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DAY #25
MAGIC FEET
Crumbs
they've got some noisy barbers
in the rubber drums
but
they look good when they step out
and
they always clean their shoes
yeah
peasants everywhere
they always clean their shoes
they ain't nobody's fool
and
they look super cool
when
I saw them dancing
down the street
they made the worldwide news
they couldn't sing
a carol or a hymn
or
anything to save their life
or
even play a tune
on
that guitar they stole
but they had magic feet
glass slippers glass shoes
like
Cinderella dancing
down the street
magic feet magic feet
glass slippers glass shoes
magic feet
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Napowrimo 2022
DAY #24
WACKY RACES
Guess who turned up to run the race the way they always do
Dick Dastardly Muttley Penelope Pitstop and all of the crew
We came over the hills hell for leather
heading for the city of love
mythical as El Dorado it was not to be found
Every type of transportation that could/would move
was heading the same way too and a few the other way
but too few to rattle on about here in the here and now
These roads that are so dangerous day and night alike
were and are a deathtrap for any stranger to their
unending roadworks and unpredictable paths and pitfalls
Our minivan driver weaves in and out of the traffic
like he's riding a solo motorcycle often just scraping back
between the vehicles in our lane before crashing the thing
Slot car racing it's not the relentless oncoming trucks coaches
minivans cars Jeeps and Jeepney's that refill the overtaking space
he/we had momentarily occupied Scalextric's for beginners
Dick Dastardly Muttley Penelope Pitstop and all of the crew
turned up to run the race the way they always do
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Napowrimo 2022
DAY #23
TALK ABOUT
Never mention the weather don't ever explain
Even if it's snowing there ain't no one to blame
There are some things that we don't talk about
We don't talk about the war
We don't talk party politics
Religion what a bore
There are some things we boast about
We wouldn't go to Waitrose if there's no Aldi store
We'd walk the extra mile
Cos we're cheapskates what a bore
There are some things we talk about
We talk about football (so long as City score)
We talk about the Kippax
And no one is a bore
Even if it's snowing I won't tell you again
Don't mention the weather don't complain
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DAY #22
THE FROG MOON
Blacks greys yellows blue
Colours merge shadows loom
The Frog moon and other stories
songs Looney tunes cartoon lyrics
scrawled on scraps of brown paper bags
out there up there as far as the eye can see
How far away is the moon asks the boy
Only the man on the moon knows that
I thought the moon was made of cheese
Yes blue cheese please and claret wine
Champagne the new shampoo
other worlds wheels within wheels
perfected deflected different rooms
swinging dancing on the moon
Colours merge shadows loom
Blacks greys yellows blue
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #21
Nonsense from the top of my head
CHURLISH
There are words you can use and words that
would be unthinkable to use in this modern day
words like churlish that may or may not mean
rude ill-tempered and/or impolite you'd have to be
as uncultured as a boorish barbarian to even consider
the type of behaviour that is thought to represent this
tasteless uncivilised word whose origins go back to
at least Anglo Saxon times where a Churl
although a landowner and farmer was looked down upon
by all and sundry as a lowly uncouth person who didn't
know when to blab or burp I guess he was the whipping boy
between the stocks but words and cultures evolve and
here's a new way of looking at this word that you may
not have considered before you see whenever you break a word
down into it's compound parts you invariably come up with at least
a couple of new words in this case if we take churl it not only
sounds like girl but in some senses it actually becomes girl
or perhaps girlish if you expand on this theme you eventually
come to a totally new meaning for churlish
which is childish and girlish neither of these words are acceptable
in common speak today so sorry folks the word churlish
has to be erased from the English language forthwith
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Napowrimo 2022
DAY #20
JUST FOR MONKEY
monkey like it didn't really happen
monkey like it's going outta fashion
monkey making monkey just for monkey
monkey she's making monkey looks like you
monkey she's making monkey looks like you
monkey making monkey just for monkey
monkey like it's going outta fashion
monkey like it didn't really happen
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DAY #19
BUBBLY AS CHAMPAGNE
UNFINISHED POEM (part two)
Something old something new something borrowed something blue (something's gone wrong)
And the wedding cake blues goes on eat it for England eat your heart out
If you ever travel to the Pearl of the Orient you'll like this
Total recall is a bit like that too but can be really boring
You see the trouble is it drags on and pulls you back into the past
Random photograph's on an online blog site and one pops up of me
Fifty years old but everybody recognises me straight away
Sitting here in the provinces two hundred miles north of Manila
Drinking Red Horse after dark in the Kubo echo's of camping out
We go everywhere all of the time always have done always will do
Torquay Newquay Weymouth Blackpool Lytham Saint Anne's (and the North Wales coast)
Later but not much The Isle of Man Jersey Brittany St Malo
Normandy and the cider farms camping out in the apple orchards
We would jump the trains down to London from Manchester Piccadilly
To watch City play at Palace Chelsea Spurs West Ham and Arsenal
Got caught a few times but in those days you could give a dodgy address
Used to go up the Kings Road and Sloane Square never bought anything though
Jean Junction denim was king tie died tee shirts matching shirt and tie sets
The swinging sixties if you said you were there you probably were not
We were only kids but we had a freedom that kids today don't have
We could go away for days weeks and months sometimes without recompense
We hitched a lift got a ride from Stockport all the way to the big smoke
Then got a bed in the partitioned off bit of the Sally Army
It was in the transport part at Elephant and Castle stank of wazz
I bought a brand new towel and after washing at the communal sinks
I turned around and the towel was gone what a welcome to London town
You don't make the same mistake twice then it was off to hear the message
The Captain spoke about Barnardo's the shoe shines and the phossy girls
We've come a long way in a hundred years he said but much more to do
After prayers we went for the bacon and egg breakfast in the big hall
We knew all the jibs in London in those days and went to Centre Point
They gave us luncheon vouchers which we cashed in for cigarettes and Coke
At Saint Martins in the fields the vicar there gave us the train fare home
The seventies merged into the eighties and came and went so quickly
We knew everybody who was anybody and nobody cared
Almost all of the time we were too drunk to know who or where we were
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #18
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
HIDDEN SECRETS
Information is key to our understanding of the Universe not simply for now but for the secret minute that moment of inspiration of innovation without which nothing that we have could ever have possibly taken place vast sums of money are exchanged for correct information a small difference of a percentage or two can cost buyers sellers and investors hundreds of millions of dollars in seconds decisions coupled with information will become powerful when mixed in the right way we each have a need that goes deeper than drilling the ground beneath the oceans very few people alive these days know the hidden secrets and the mysterious dilemma of whether to do or don't give birth to a new invention that could change our lives forever with the express power of life over death these things you already know but soon I will reveal everything that you need to know
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Napowrimo 2022
DAY #17
SWIMMING
Going to the swimming pool
What times the next bus
They come when they arrive
At the swimming pool
What's the water like
Wet
Running for the bus later
(bone dry)
Have I missed the bus
Have you Buxton
they don't run this late
on Sundays
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #16
& Andy's 150 word Daily Nonsense Challenge
DAYTIME TV
Devon and Cornwall up in Dartmoor or down by the sea
make your dreams come true in the Westcountry
believe the hype on Daytime TV that you can retire to a new county
of course you can and you'll love it too if you play Rugby or support Argyle
if you like a laugh it makes me smile when I watch the bile on Daytime TV
if you're not ready to sell your house and move just yet you can get a doer upper
for the price of a cuppa and flip it for a profit on Daytime TV
but don't go down the route of a second house or holiday home
it's not the done thing any more now than it ever was
it keeps the workers poor and the poor poorer than they were before
buy a Fisherman's cottage if you like he won't need it any more
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Napowrimo 2022
DAY #15
SCRUFFY DOGS
The sun shines like the rain pours sometimes on the just and unjust alike
The grass isn't any greener in this place because of the sunshine
Nor does the amount of rainfall affect the temperature boo hoo
They climb up the anthill at the base of the sprawling tamarind tree
Mushrooms and other white fungi grows there too scruffy dogs sniff at it
The rain stays off until late morning but the sun gets ever hotter
Oceans dry up moons fall out of orbit a new Universe appears
We sit there waiting watching powerless to interfere with such things
Some of our people have already been taken others are waiting
If it's not the Ginebra that takes so long to come it's the tonic
Party's are like that sometimes too all of the food sitting there waiting
And no one's got an inkling what time the cake is going to be cut
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DAY #14
PUTIN KNOWS
I shall fear no evil for He is my shepherd I shall not want
Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Authentic as Shawarma Pizza
Italian as the Eiffel Tower
Insane as the Seine in denial
Putin sends thousands to certain death
Crimes against humanity crimes against war
Crimes against Christians crimes against Christ
Crimes against men women children the unborn
Crimes against his own people who are starting to suffer
As the secret crimes that only Putin knows about come out
The secrets of his blackened heart that have not been seen yet
As they begin to be unleashed like Genghis Khan
Or Hitler or some other type of Anti-Christ that we've not seen
Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I shall fear no evil for He is my shepherd I shall not want
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DAY #13
YOU'RE FIRED
They talk you down until you're worn out they always know better than you do of course because they've seen it all before been there done that sold more than you've even bought so do you have a business plan or don't you if not you're fired but don't worry it's not real life it's just junk TV if you've got nothing better to do or there's no football on the other side talking of sides there's hundreds of channels on the box these days which one would anyone want to watch and why maybe one without commercial breaks or perhaps one with so you can multitask multitask TV that's a new one on me but I think we all do that sometimes don't we I find that if I read a book watch TV and do the crossword at the same time I fall asleep but that's just me
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DAY #12
UNCLE WATER
The women here are very beautiful while the men are some of the most handsome in the world the women brush everything several times a day tables chairs floors pathways driveways everywhere you look someone is brushing something or someone and tomorrow they will brush it/them all over again I just want to brush under the table Uncle they tell me and studiously they go about removing every grain of rice that I have just accidentally dropped there and the cat didn't get to fast enough what they don't realise of course is the amount of dust that they are creating no wonder I've been coughing my guts up ever since we first arrived here the dust from the constant brushing and the emissions from the traffic all add up to make a sore throat really really painful have you taken your medicine today Uncle they ask and give me a couple of pills to pop just in case I forgot to take them then they say would you like some tea or coffee Uncle water please I tell them but they always ignore me and bring coffee anyway I wait for it to go cold and then I drink it but it's oh so sweet everything over here is sweet ever so sweet even the fruit growing wild outside has a devilishly fruity sweetness to it but don't knock it there's fruit everywhere no one's going to starve this week or next and there'll be steaks for all hanging off the branches in Tiny Tree before we know it
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DAY #11
HELLO AM I EVEN ABLE
They said we're going on holiday and started packing bags
Spent all night weighing them and packing and repacking
In the morning they/we were ready and sitting outside
In the rain waiting for a taxi when it didn't come
They phoned another one from one of their devices
At the airport check-in I ask them where we are going
A far away place they tell me it's called Tahiti
Oh good I exclaim I've always wanted to go there
Really they say laughing behind cupped hands
On the aeroplane and many hours later we touch down
In Doha wonderful place fantastic airport but Tahiti it's not
Don't worry they tell me feeding me my cocktail of tablets
We are only changing planes here we just have to wait
For six hours until they've cleaned and restocked the plane
I sit in the airport lounge and do the easy Sudoku in my book
They do what they always do lippy laptops and mobile things
They tell me last night's football scores like they're important
I don't want to know the scores before I watch the highlights
Hello am I even able to do do anything any more or what
When the second aeroplane lands I'm really excited but
They tell me there's been a change of plan we can't go to Tahiti
They say because French Polynesia is closed due to the lurgy
So we've come to The Pearl of the Orient instead
Wonderful I reply maybe we can still go Island hopping as
I had really wanted to go to Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands
They had never heard of Paul Gauguin and Jacques Brel of course
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #10
& Andy's 150 word Daily Nonsense Challenge
VAST NEW WORLD
The bus flies past the shops I wanna get off
I scream the driver ignores me
When the next stop comes I get off as quickly as I can
I've never been this far before avenues criss cross streets
Buildings higher than hills taller than trees
I can no longer hear the birds singing for the roar of heavy traffic
Everywhere I look there are people either in cars or on motorcycles
and bicycles or simply walking the streets seemingly aimlessly like me
Before long I become very lost in this vast new world
I never suspected that my bus would actually run to such a place as this
I had always thought that the shopping parade was at the end of the world
and that the bus just turned around and came back after my usual stop
but now my eyes have been opened to a strange new world
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #9
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
EAT YOUR HEART OUT
They sell potato fries in the market ready cut up in placky bags
for you to take home and deep fry with your foot long saveloy
ketchup chilli sauce or soy and vinegar and garlic to dip
complementary fish sauce for those who can bear it
gobbledegook personified with double egg and chips
add a couple of rashers of bacon a grilled tomato and fried mushrooms
for the all day brunch wash it down with a litre or two of Red Horse
eat your heart out until pancake day or till the jokes on you
and when the mosquitoes bite you'll know about it good style
you'll scratch yourself stupid and it'll flaming hurt like buglery
when they ask if you're okay you'll say I'm fine as eggs are Eccles cakes
Salamat po but what you should have said is
am I Buxton I feel like a troglodyte on heat
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #8
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
LIFE GOES ON
Like fireflies they dart about
the motorbikes and tricycles
lighting up the dark
the Jeepney's of course are not running yet
after the Chinese infusion Asian flu it's not
world wide pandemic phew get a vaccine or two and a booster
when they tell you to don't step out of line and you'll be fine
but whose counting any more wear a mask to shop at the store
one each for your cats and dogs too on public transport
but kids under twelve can still go skat free
helter skelter we all fall down
sideways sometimes
but life goes on regardless
although it's good to reminisce
to say you were there on this occasion or that
it doesn't really matter if you missed it
you weren't the only one
so long as someone was there
to share and witness that great match
made in heaven where two became one flesh
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Napowrimo 2022
DAY #7
INTELLIGENCE
She thought a tonne of concrete
was heavier than a tonne of feathers
how she worked that one out I don't know
but work it out she did and forwarded it
to the board of submissions for a grant to study
for an MA in the field of intelligence and security
at one of the Ivy League Universities
of course there wasn't really such a course available
if there had been she almost definitely
wouldn't have been accepted and as for the grant
that too was a virtual non starter however as a point
of fairness and with the backing of the anti discrimination laws
in that country she was granted an interview regardless
On arrival at the college the chancellor sent one of his quislings
out to the parking lot to make a thorough investigation of the
candidates vehicle her car was a total mess
which disqualified her immediately
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DAY #6
THE THREE WISE MEN
They held a stash of folding cash unseen on earth before
specks of buried untold gold riches waiting to unfold
See ya later doctor data said the odd bod to the nerd
and the three wise men brought gifts
Crystals quartz lithium gold incense and myrrh
those forgotten memories that can never be restored
Once shattered erased forever on any day of the week
but breaking glass sounds smashing at any time of year
It sounds so good and loud when an oven door explodes
they live in fear waiting for the next bomb to drop
Like the stone statues that they say they discovered
no matter how old they are those stones can't talk
The secrets of the ancient ones who buried them there
are as safe with us as a Jenga Tower or a house of cards
Specks of buried untold gold riches waiting to unfold
they held a stash of folding cash unseen on earth before
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DAY #5
BARTER
We don't pay cash
dollars or roubles
for anything these days
everything is trade only and that means
barter to those that are in the know
you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
if you know the lingo or even if you don't
the bottom line is I do this for you
you do that for me or we can step it up a bit and
introduce something like the Local Exchange Trading System
or the tool and car sharing programmes better still
we could start a community food exchange cooperative
and get all our supermarket needs and wants at no charge
what about dentistry and doctoring and free haircuts for all
you shave my bonce and I'll cut your thatch
pick and mix at the buckshee gobstopper stall
rooms without rent bed and breakfast at no expense
or beer and wine by the bucketful for the chosen few
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DAY #4
WONDERFUL PEOPLE
The spaghetti was Italian until they added the sugar
Like sweet sweet coffee and sticky soft drinks
Shaking like a wooden roller coaster
The tricycle thunders downhill and up
Stutters to a halt gives way to a Jeepney
Manila it's not but we are in the Philippines
Wonderful people and excellent food
Would you like a coffee Uncle they ask
Twenty times a day and some Pandesal
After breakfast they say It'll be dinner time soon
We go to the Carinderia to eat Mami
It's thirty five pesos and ten more for an extra egg
There's sixty eight pesos to the British pound today
I give them a hundred they deserve to keep the change
Like sweet sweet coffee and sticky soft drinks
The spaghetti was Italian until they added the sugar
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DAY #3
SUNDAY MORNING
Come on lady come and and have a Butchers
Hook at this little bundle of bath sheets
They didn't fall off the back of a lorry
I caught them they're bankrupt stock
They're yer genuine Egyptian cotton
Made by Japanese robots in Taiwan
Get some for the guest room or yer Airbnb
Any colour yer like they're soft as a baby's bottom
I'll chuck the towels in at two quid a throw
Five for eight ninety nine or ten for sixteen nicker
Who'll buy the first one to get me started
Any flavour come on sir do yerself a favour
If you see a Copper coming this way
You'll see me running that way
I'll tell you what I'll do if you buy one for two notes
I'll bung another one in buckshee
Okay I can see you're interested now
So who wants the first towel for less than two dabs
You'd have to go a long way to get quality gear like this
On a Sunday morning further than Timbuktu
Never mind yer designer labels
What we've got are cheap at half the price
Look in all the big stores behind me
These towels came out of the same stable
Okay I can see the hands shooting up there now
Less than a deuce for two quality bath sheets
That's all I'm asking one to the lady over there
And one to the gentleman with the umbrella
Me and my wife are in the iron and steel business
She does the ironing and I do something completely different
I'm clapping my hands it's my final price
One ninety nine a brace let me see those hands
Michael give the punters a penny change
Thank you lady thank you sir nice one squirrel
Last few now one over here Michael and one over there
And one to the little boy who lives down the lane
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DAY #2
GOOD TIME DREAMS
I'm waiting for her smile to set me free
She opens up her eyes and looks at me
Our winter dreams of skiing in the snow
In secret times and places that we found
The good time dreams that only we can know
With lots and lots of snow upon the ground
Still beautiful as ever so they say
As my heart longs to be up with the lark
We will be summer lovers in the hay
Loving in the park till after dark
Please take it any way you like alright
I have to tell it how it is for me
I only want to hold you tight tonight
You understand I know that you can see
She opens up her eyes and looks at me
I'm waiting for her smile to set me free
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DAY #1
STREET CORNER GUYS
Extraordinary things are happening
In places where you wouldn't want to sing
Most Jim's ain't gym's where you can exercise
The kinda talk they make street corner guys
The clenched fists that they pump the hands they shake
The dreams they hold the deals that they make
Please don't go rattle on up that back street
They're dancing with umbrellas for awhile
The downs and ups and outs that make you smile
I never ever thought they'd eat pigs feet
Here I am with you standing in the rain
Icicles even we don't feel the pain
So here we go quick don't quit quick quick slow
And that's not even back slang don't you know
In places where you wouldn't want to sing
Extraordinary things are happening
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