Mary Champion Poems

Light illusions,
like magic
seem solid.
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I've thought so long about it,
trying hard to understand
the thrill that travels through me
any time I touch your hand.
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They say there's lots o' fishes in the deep blue sea,
so how come, when I'm fishing, I can't find no fish for me?
I spin my line and lay my bait,
but all I do is sit and wait.
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Well, the King of Rock'n'Roll
met the ancient Queen of Soul,
and she looked him in the eye,
and she said ‘You're just the guy.
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I haven't a reason to love you;
it's just that I do.
There's nobody nowhere that no way
can move me like you.
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There's something that it's hard to live without,
in face of all the tears and all the doubt.
There's something that I need, now,
like a junkie needs a fix.
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The beautiful people live in California
and the dutiful people live here.
I am one of the dutiful people,
everything that I do's insincere.
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I was down and I wanted to die.
‘Won't you let me? ' I started to cry,
when a voice in my head
said, ‘You're already dead,
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Oh, Doctor, I don't fit this life I'm in.
But I can't break away, cos that's a sin.
Help me accept a life without a goal.
Prescribe some pills to shrivel up my soul.
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1986
God don't dance the minuet, or listen to a fugue,
cos he's freaked out on Rock'n'Roll as synthesised by Moog.
You know he's into Rock and into Roll,
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