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A boy got his electric train, (I think a Lionel)
And then he did an awful thing (this tale is sad to tell)
He took his sister's Barbie doll and laid her on the track,
Then ran the engine over her, first forward and then back.
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I dream a horse, a cat, a dog,
A butterfly.
I ride into the mist.
Cat prowls on my left flank.
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Don't throw your words
On paper
Like wet spaghetti
On the wall.
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I was playing at the barn dance when the aliens dropped by.
They must have heard our music from way up in the sky.
They brought beer and ribs and coleslaw so I had to let them in,
One yelled out to the caller, 'Hey Jake, now let's begin! '
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5.

That afternoon, the day before
I went back into the field,
The Padre called us all together
For 'Just a few, simple words'.
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When poet hunters come around
To see me, not one can be found.
I've no poetic license
I'd like to keep just one or two;
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Old Zeke and Earl were in the hills
As lost as they could be,
And all around them were more hills
As far as they could see.
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What pub this is I think I know.
The owner is a bloke named Joe.
My friends must think it rather queer
That I drink wine instead of beer.
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A sudden chill,
Goose-flesh;
You know a cat
Has walked
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The Captain told the Bos'n, 'This is where we drop the hook.
'I've heard there's mermaids hereabouts
'And I intend to look.
'To see a real, live mermaid
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I will not ever see your face,
Or hear your voice, or touch your hand,
But part of you is in this place
Though living in a far-off land.
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A flying saucer hovered by the shore of Possum Lake.
They'd come to find some specimens and take what they could take.
Sitting in a cage, they had a hillbilly named Jake.
They'd checked him out with ice-cold probes and had him drink some gin
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14.

The Sheriff laid a hand on Tex
And said, 'Boy, you're in a jam.
'If half of what I've heard is true,
'You should be on the lam.'
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15.

I cannot refuse you a taste
Of my pomegranate,
Nor fail to beg you
Beware of seeds;
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I wandered lonely as a clown who gives the rubes cheap circus thrills
When all at once my jaundiced eye saw the trapeze artist in her frills.
'O Angeline, ' I called to her (They billed her as 'The Human Fly') .
'With you my life would be complete, without you in my arms, I die'.
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I sit here looking at my hands
And think ' O Wow, they're really neat! '
I wish I'd not run out of dope
Or I'd be looking at my feet.
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I shot an arrow straight up into the air
And stood my ground, and didn't have a care.
I knew that coriolis force would save
The careful archer from an untimely grave.
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A fellow saw a lovely girl
In a bar where he was tippling
And to try to introduce himself
Said, 'I say, do you like Kipling'?
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A boy got his electric train, (I think a Lionel)
And then he did an awful thing (this tale is sad to tell)
He took his sister's Barbie doll and laid her on the track,
Then ran the engine over her, first forward and then back.
Her little arms and legs came off, next she lost her head
He put the pieces in a box and sighed ' Poor Barbie's dead '

Sis grabbed her brother's G.I. Joe
And said ' This darn thing's gotta go'.
She loaded up his BB gun
And said ' Now I can have some fun '.
After two shots, Joe took a fall.
He's buried next to Barbie Doll.

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