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BARBARA DE FRANCESCHI
that's where everything begins apples/ egos to a girl called Marilyn nude for a calendar dead for a President conspiracies prosper no gender shame/ reputations to blame ...and the sin goes on should I run backwards/ meet up myself start over again rather than fail with the King on a roll free will/ freewheeling down the drugged out/ rocked out hellway life was good...back in the midnight days swinging on rope petticoats bee-hives pushing a hole in the ozone in the puritan now after we preach to our children drag them screaming in a chocolate tantrum away from the Easter Bunny shut the door on the Tooth Fairy shatter the Santa Claus myth while we...wait with a towel for Harold Holt to return from his swim conscience runs in a straight line plotted by democracy I have a voice/ but no tune any excuse will do accents turn to ashes/ roses bloom as lilies out there in the powder blue shot with fire/ the sun sets