cabaretic

My ex-wife is suing me right now.

She was walking through Central Park by herself late one night and was violated.

That's how the paper reported it..."She was violated."

When called to comment, I said, "Knowing my ex-wife, it was probably not a moving violation."- Woody Allen

The Dr. Seuss Bible

One day God said
This is what I will do
I'll send down my son
I'll send him to you
To clear up this humpity
Bumpity hulabaloo

His name will be Christ
And he'll never wear shoes
And his pals will all call
Him the King of the Jews

He didn't come in a plane
He didn't come in a jeep...
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I've seen you go
Through changes
That no man should
face alone.

Turn to heel
Or turn to heed

The choice is still your own.

And arm yourself
against the pain

A wounded bird
can give

And in the end
remember
it's with you
you have to live.

And in the end
remember
it's with you
you have to live.

Serenade
your angel
with a...
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There is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack. But now they follow.

-Gertrude Stein.

The death of art is self-satisfaction. The point at which we stop fighting against the contradictory ideas that rumble around inside our brains...we have lost all connection with that which is art. Art is...
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Saturday night
and you're still hanging around

You're tired of living
in your one horse town
You'd like to find a little hole
in the ground for a while

So you go to the fountain
in your tight blue jeans
And you stare at the junkies
and the closet queens

It's like some pornographic magazine
and you smile

Your sister's gone out, she's on a...
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But, Mousie, thou art not alone
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
go oft awry

And leave us nought but grief an' pain
for promised joy.

where have you gone..

with your confident
walk... with
your crooked smile...

whey did you leave
me
when you took your
laughter
and departed
Are you aware that
with you
went the sun
all light
and what few stars there were...?

where have you gone
with your confident
walk your
crooked smile the
rent money
in one pocket and
my heart
in
another...

I rode my bicycle
past your window last night

I roller skated
to your door at daylight

It almost seems
like you're avoiding me

I'm okay alone
but you got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair
of roller skates

You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together
and try them out you see

I been looking...
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Sheepdog
standing in the rain,
Bullfrog
doing it again

Some kind of happiness
is measured out in miles

What makes you think
you're something special
when you smile?

Child-like
No one understands,
Jack knife
In your sweaty hands,

Some kind of innocence
is measured out in years
You don't know what it's like
to listen to your fears

You can talk to me,
You can...
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When you dance
do your senses tingle
and take a chance?

In a trance
While the lonely mingle
with circumstance?

I've got something to tell you
You made it show

Let me come over
I know you know

When you dance
I can really love

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question
Oh, do not...
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For George W. Bush

After a Time

After a time, all losses are the same
One more thing lost is one thing less to lose;
And we go stripped at last the way we came.

Though we shall probe, time and again, our shame,
Who lack the wit to keep or to refuse,
After a time, all losses are the same.

No wit, no luck...
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