Well
*** my boots
the bank I use
went bust today
but I trust in the
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and sometimes God too.

It's not the way because it works this way
it's because
it works.

Character building
is like
house building
you have to cement the bricks
in place.

we get distracted
girls or boys
who are
very attractive

and where does it end?

We put children's toys away
because
we're told that we are too old
to play
with childhood games

in many cases that is probably true
but
once we lose that fuse
that burnt through
our youth
we might as well give up
and that is the truth,

Snap
Happy Families
Old Maid
Ludo
Cluedo
and you all know
Blind Man's Buff

this is the stuff
we were
young for.

So
you can't pour a drink
from
a fibre optic,

easy mistake to
make mine a double.

Out on a limb and listening to Cohen wondering to myself, do I know him?

and the answer came to me through the words which he sang to me, words of melancholy, words of God above, words which invoked in me a feeling akin to love.

So I knew him
but
too late now
to tell him
that I knew him
perhaps
I'll tell Marianne.

Some people get off the train at the wrong station
and think well, I'm here now, *** it, I'll stay.

Leave nothing behind you
or others may find you
and if they do
you will have to leave again.

Some people hang loose
some
like to put their heads in a noose
I like pomegranate juice
that was probably
of little or no interest
a bit like
my bank account.