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Aug 2018
Cagney,
he with the grapefruit,
'top of the world ma'
yankee doodle,
was in my opinion
not a dandy.

which has nothing to do with this
it just needed saying.

I'm praying for a take over
a once in a lifetime
make over
or
I'm going under
and
difficult I believe is
the way that I'll breathe
with the
PSI
building
but
pressure is not just
a cooker,

she
was a helluva looker
and I felt the pressure then
to
bypass the other men and
make a play for her.

Love being the apple in
the orchard
it is sometimes and somewhat
awkward
to say what you mean
when you mean it.

Here I am
man in a quandary
why don't you
call me?

Actually
I am fracturing
the seams are unpicking
no
sticking at fifteen
which was always
the magic number,
tragic really.

I can't reach the cut out
don't tell me
she puts out,
that is so passe.

I wonder who
was on
the grassy knoll,
no one at all?
a conspiracy
to do away with me?
hey
do what you like
I see
a brighter future
in futures.

She,
makes
contact with me
a
protracted affair
which
is only fair
when
I love her.
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
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