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How I Became a Fish
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When the paratroopers (stunning!!) made their way down to me, honey, I was eating TV dinners
beneath their flight. By the time I saw them touching down my hopes had fallen. It was far too late
for me to hit the lights.
You know that I would never lie. Well, at first I thought I'd die. But then I thought: "Damn! I'm a
man!" And I fought them back to heaven in hand-to-hand. Hand-to-hand.
The next thing that I know I am awakened by a blow from the last of my assailants from the sky.
He was badly beaten too. Yes, I matched him black for blue. And I held my breath to brace the
blinding lights.
The second shot turned day to night and I swam in it for miles. At first I thought: "This isn't bad..."
but I fought that thought back to heaven in hand-to-hand.
Well, I never do remember being born. But now I am an underwater form. And I miss the way the
sun shone in my eyes. And I guess that most of all (to no surprise), oh, I miss my hands. Two
hands. Hands, two hands.
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Living's For the Wicked
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When your days lean so hard. When your gaze turns blue. When the sun it sets long before you do the things that you wanted to...
Played by their rules that were so wrong for so long.
Well, living's for the wicked.
It ain't a sin to lose your whole mind, or to use it sometimes.
Go on and punch my ticket.
I broke out, busted, ran off - man, I flew the coop. I'd been lost and strapped down up in Heaven's Zoo. But I pulled that tooth...
Played by their rules that were so wrong for so long.
Well, living's for the wicked.
It ain't a sin to lose your whole mind, or to use it sometimes.
Go on and punch my ticket.
A kind word, when spoken, carves daylight into night.
A song here to be your companion in spite of the plight.
Played by their rules that were so wrong for so long.
Well, living's for the wicked.
It ain't a sin to lose your whole mind, or to use it sometimes.
Go on and punch my ticket.
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John Ralston
“I live my life in ever widening circles, each superseding all the previous ones.” -Rilke
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