I was watching West Side Story
And was gob smacked by its freshness
It’s over half a century
Old yet it has such directness
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Blow wind blow, blow the autumn leaves around
Blow and make them swirl high from the low ground
Make them dancing dervishes in the air
Let them revel without a single care
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Under the grassy mossy blanket - Rest
Tearing searing pain can never again
Touch your brief brightly burning brilliance
You are locked in Earth's sheltered embrace - Rest
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Turn up the hi-fi to maximum
You cannot listen to Beethoven
Turned down to a paltry minimum
For he is music's Leviathan
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I am sitting here in my room
I am waiting for a call
To go walking but I assume
We will not be going at all
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It’s a difficult decision
To take or not to take her
I may be in for derision
If I take or not take her
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A picture treasured is when you appeared
In front of me (in years so far away) .
An instant love was born and I revered
Your form and soul on that auspicious day.
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