Sure As Shoeshine: a song about jealousy

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Darlin be mine
sure as shoeshine
I don't have time
to fool around.
I won't be fine
in the meantime
while you
tool around the town.
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Take my pictcha
keep it witcha
if you doubt me
just look down.
If some other
guy won't quitcha
show ma pictcha
and ya frown.

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If ya ask me
for my latchkey
I'll provide it
for ya now.
Just don't say you
can't attach me
while I work
to make you proud.

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Don't you think you're
clever missy
as I lay my
money down.
If you think that
you won't miss me
I'll be sure to
play you round.

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If I can't will ya
then I'll kill ya
shoot you up and
shoot you down.
Then I'll sing this
love song to ya
as you lie there
on the ground.

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Darlin be mine
sure as shoeshine
I don't have time
to fool around.
I can't be fine
in the meantime
while you
lie dead on the ground.
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If I am this
brutal to ya
I will take my
lesson hard:
hold that barrel
to my navel
and discharge
into my lard.

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Oh the pain of
dyin slowly
is a thought that
should abound,
in your head please
choose instead of
me in pain
rolling around.

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I'll just die there
face in your hair
while you stare dead
at the crowd.
Let this be my
lesson to ya
hope you hear me
clear and loud.

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MW

The last time I saw you when you were still a girl, we played in the waves together on the beach. I remember you futzing with your one-piece bathing suit a lot while I pushed you on the float; but your laughter was sometimes free and you weren't so goddamn tall. Ever since then when I've seen you, you've been doing all you can to be a young woman. I admire your efforts, but you seem very distant and unreachable. I hope, when you're done growing up, we'll still be friends.

Jr

I'm a superman in the making
now I won't be forsaking you.
I'll wear my helmet when I'm raking
but I won't be taking my life for you.

I hate to tell this to you
but I think you'd know that it's true
if you'd just stop quaking in fear.
I hope you wish I was here
I know I wish I was here.
I hope you know I love you
but that I sure ain't through with you.

I got my shoes on
no thanks to you all.
I haven't lost any friends
and no one needs to get the bends
over some stupid shit
that shouldn't make your blood boil
or spoil a summer of toil in the soil.

Obviously
bureaucracy is not for me,
but I assure thee
that politics is my new specialty.
So don't think you're getting off free,
you'll be hearing from me.

for my uncle, who knows

The wise man grows younger as he grows older until he is again as he was. A great return he has chosen, and new openness to a world he has certainly known but which he no longer knows. He dodges blind rigidity and its associated woes by recovering his mind's flexibility.

"I'm not sure of anything," he says, and relearns- drawing not exclusively from his head, but frequently from the changing natural world instead. A good way not to die before he's dead.

Hungry?

The sickly spores of boredom in the brain are bleating-
drawing ever nearer the hour of unnecessary feeding.
Feel the urge surge within; purge the scourge that is thankfully fleeting.
Courage cures, and causes the sublimation of recreational eating.
Run off the unwelcome sensation: distraction is deflection.
What small satisfaction is gained from a common confection?

I have something
I've been wanting
to give you,

An intimacy
commonly
shared by two;

I was gonna stop by
as I was driving
through,

Join our lips,
brush our hips
and then shoo.

I'm tellin you bro

You gotta go slow.

You gotta know fo sho
you've got the flow
and you ain't no ho.

You gotta relax.

You gotta pay the tax
before you play the sax
or swing the ax.

It's gonna be wild.

But the consequence
is a lot more mild
without a child.

sun showers all day:
God smiling on my way,
would that I could stay.

a new one

Hopefully ethnocentricity
is sorta like outdated,
along with monochromicity.
But I see you alone, missy,
as the finest ethnicity.

Saftey

First Year, put on all your PPE and repeat after me:

Safety is very important.
Safety is a priority.
Safety is number-one priority.
I love safety.
I love feeling safe.
I feel safe right now,
and I've never felt better in my life.