John Randal

'You can't cry over spilled milk! '
my mother always said.
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I was handsome, handsome once,
until I broke
my beautiful nose.
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My roaches ate my vitamin pills,
B complex and Super C!

They're lifting pots and pans tonight
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Am I truly happy?
my mother wants to know.

Am I ever lonely?
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A failure in life
and so in death,
as God lays my soul
down in hell to rest
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WHO IN HELL
IS THAT ABOVE ME!
who keeps me from my sleep,
whose noise is even louder
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Foolish girl! dam foolish heart!
thinking,
that she's in love,
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