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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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are you quite through? quink had never seen maria so angry she pointed to the window zorg, the chauffeur, was standing beside the fountain and the moon was shining through the trees professor quinn told me a different story, quink began but maria turned and left the room quink decided he might as well finish his sandwich but when he looked around the tall red-haired maid was taking his sandwich and highball glass away which way was the front door? he found himself in a long corridor with an elevator an elevator? he had thought the house had only one floor he pressed the button and waited for the elevator as he did he remembered maria as she had been when they were children summering beside lake geneva before the peace talks broke down next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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perhaps you have forgotten your quest for paradise no longer bite people on the leg and have learned to pretend to be nice the princess in the tower still ignores you as you pass by the pirates in the pool hall never thought you were a regular guy the puppy that you loved so much wants to play a game but you prefer to smoke your pipe to your eternal shame the portraits in your ancestral home still percolate on the walls but nothing is left in the iron safe but uncle paul’s golf balls pour another cup of coffee as you wait for lawyer smith the handyman left last evening but who did he leave with? you left your pink pajamas in a subway telephone booth your poems turn to popsicle sticks and your lies to truth next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh sometimes i feel so sad and remember the long ago days and the expectations i had though i walked the streets in a haze and ate at wendy’s alone and slept on a wet park bench my dreams had not turned to stone i defied the powers that were in their temples of metal and glass in their towers destined to fall when the truth was revealed at last it was only a matter of time it was obvious at a glance when rainbows would fill the sky and little children come out to dance but the days and the years went by the decades and the centuries and the towers are still there not even swaying in the breeze o dreamers unite! do not drown in the river of night keep alive the heavenly flame in the end it will turn out all right next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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never seek to nullify the neverness of not do not despair, my darling give it all you’ve got the nectar of the nightingales is sold in little packets by nihilists and ne’er-do-wells in expensive dinner jackets you left a bowl of noodles on the vicar’s coffee table he will send a bill for damages as soon as he is able they found your old blue notebook on the beach where nora drowned she drank coffee by the gallon and ate candy by the pound how hard is it, really to remember your old friends though they never become famous or meet unseemly ends? let us gather at the river as the dawn is turning pale nancy may be in paradise but nicky is in jail next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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fish are mad at the ocean birds are mad at the air snakes ate mad at the long green grass because life is so unfair people are mad at each other all the world around they poke fingers in each others faces and make hideous sounds all the world’s sad creatures crawl across the ground o where can fairness be encountered where can justice be found? prophets through the ages have proclaimed love as the answer but yet there is no peace on earth only hatred’s spreading cancer there is no cure for hatred buried in the world’s red heart maybe it is time to give it up and make a brand new start next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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love love love love love on the wings of purple doves flying through the rain of fate lit by lightning bolts of hate nobody likes me this i know sometimes i wish it were not so luck smiled on me in days of old once or twice or so i am told there is a city by the sea forbidden to the likes of you and me the streets are paved with practiced ease demons whisper in the giggling breeze golden doorways open wide but who knows what is inside? weary pilgrims put down cash on vistas of unfathomed passion next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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mommy, where is daddy? little katie cried he has gone away, my darling gone for a long long ride he shot a man in cheyenne with his trusty forty four now they’ll string him up in the morning and his feet won’t touch the floor oh mother say it is not so little katie wailed the moon is but an ember the horizon doth grow pale tomorrow leaves will fall from trees and highways glow with rain mothers will feed their children bacon and wild horses roam the plains waitresses will pour coffee for truck drivers named hank and lawyers draw up papers for the presidents of banks wise women will mix potions and wise men scratch their heads dogs and children jump and shout but poor daddy will be dead next