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A man in a tailored suit A man eating rotten fruit One divorced three wives Two contrasting lives One is a lawyer The other a beggar I’m sure you think of the two of them, One is a hundred times better He’s in fine garments The other’s worn and tattered One’s dreams came true The other one’s shattered But none of that matters—why? How ‘bout you ask us, the maggot and the fly Because in the end —and we say this without shame A vagrant and a lawyer in death both taste the same
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Dec 30, 2016
Dec 30, 2016 at 12:31 PM UTC
The Taste Of...
A man in a tailored suit A man eating rotten fruit One divorced three wives Two contrasting lives One is a lawyer The other a beggar I’m sure you think of the two of them, One is a hundred times better He’s in fine garments The other’s worn and tattered One’s dreams came true The other one’s shattered But none of that matters—why? How ‘bout you ask us, the maggot and the fly Because in the end —and we say this without shame A vagrant and a lawyer in death both taste the same
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Dec 30, 2016
Dec 30, 2016 at 12:31 PM UTC
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