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I'M A COULD -HAVE -&,EN
I admit it, I'm a hog. In other words, human. I enjoy
inLercourse and a pair of doughnuts like anybody else. Say
tomorrer I -eke up I'm covered in communism, say I can go and
get what I want b: asking I want six wives. You maybe want
24 suits and him they gotta give twelve yachts, otherwise he's
miserable. We're nuts, we're all deprived so long we went nuts.
Plain hogs. It's chemical, you can't do nothing. We're 90%
water, 11.20, and 10% other things sodium helium oxygen hydrogen
potassium phosphorus calcium and so forth. At the same time in
this kinda world 2 plus 2 makes 5. Listen to what I'm gonna say
to you now, carefully the bacteria of primordial times is today
the bacteriologist. Sh! Don't talk. Think that over
Now. Look at me. I look like a dirt monkey. True. I'm among
the world of missing men. I'm so insignificant if they sent out
a radio call for me a hundred years nobody would find me. I could
write my whole will on a postage stamp. Tell ma, then, why should
I sing my country tis of thee or welcome sweet springtime I greet
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you in song. Economically I'm collapsed, not a single coin of the
realm you'll find in my pocket, I ain't cot enough real estate to
put in a flower pot. And yet, my friend, you can never tell the
way you stand by the way you're sitting down. I'm a could -have -been.
I could tell you something else Pril a genius and so forth,
after all, you're a stranger to me. But it ain't what you call
yourself, you can say you're Jesus and you ain't even St. Patrick.
True? Well, I got lost inside a sweat shop like a fly in a house
winter time. You go into it a man and you come out cockeyed hunch:
backed knockneed pigeontoed -latehested you're a washrag and a
walking prospect for the undertaker. You gotta put a mark on your
feet to know right from left. The cerebrum, the gray matter and
the different parts of the cerebellum are deflated. So I was fired.
The boss said he gotta make saorhices he started with me. Before,
I was lost, after I was still worse. I had bicycles in my brain,
I was asking myself always: am I coming from or going to? Here I
was free, the whole day in the air, in the sun but I was still
groping, the park was the same as the snop. There's no sense to
harp or criticize, when you're alone you can bark at the moon like
a boogie dog, you can go sit dawn on the ground and open up your
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mouth you'll catch mosquitoes, that's all. One swallow don't make
a summer. A chain is strong like its weakest link and that was me.
I don't say I didn't let off a lotta hot air in them trying times,
it's a free country, I lived by my own oxygen. But also we got
a check and balance system here, there ain't no dictatorship, no-
body gets away with murder, you can express yourself and manifest
yourself, true, but the other guy can check up on you if he wants to.
Well, I got plenty checking up but in the end I was a citizen
of the world. I didn't bow dawn to the dollar, I VOA international,
a progressive. I followed the head, you understand, the others fol-
lowed the rear end, they were retro-gressive. You find some people
in this day and age they like to be both. If they're dawn in the
battery they're up in the Bronx too, these budweisers, these pol-
itical fackers. They claim if you're in a steam room at the highest
temperature you're freezing and if you go luta a frigidaire you're
hot. Why does ice smoke? They tell you: because it went crazy
with the frost. They're always arguing: if it's hot as it's warm
while it'ufreeAng it should be cold you think it's gonna be hot?
Bahl I wouldn't stoop myself so law. The average man should think
twice before he speaks and then shut up.
Which reminds no ain't it time forme too? Here I ain't
cot enough to buy doughnuts and I'm riding a whole cavalry of
ideas. If I had my life to live over again I'd choose an exist-
ence of plenty. But, for the present, it/r my opinion the govern-
ment should take us over, otherwise it's better for us to shut o4
eyes, the undertaker downtown got a special this week.
lihich means this, this whole spiel. It's an explosion, I
mean an explanation of one thing I got cursed with a social
consciousness and how much I vuiuld like to do something about it
I can't. Brain I got plenty but the will power of a Chinese
Eskimo.
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