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Oct 2014
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sure

If you say so

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                                     why not ?

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What's the big deal ?

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I used to go to acting school

Tried to learn to play the part of a human being

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I wanted to play the part of a beautiful
Black goddess

Roaming naked in the holy mountains

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I wanted to show her in the sweat of sacred labor

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Her beautiful skin

The utter conviction of her brutal purity

Her fearless embrace of both life and death

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I got me a job as a short order cook in Harlem

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I used to love to watch the people walkin in the rain

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Really

There is too much death here

Too much pain

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I was standing on the Brooklyn bridge at midnight

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I thought

IT WOULDN'T REALLY BE THAT HARD TO CHANGE

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Sure

If you say so



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What's the big deal
Written by
jeffrey robin
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