With apologies to Adrian Henri Tonight at noon Karl Marx will be dug up And re-buried in Westminster Abbey,
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A SHAGGY DOG STORY
One of the nicest afternoons I’ve spent Was the one we spent together Searching for your dog. You called
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Hair’em, tear’em, frighten and scare them, Lenin and Stalin and Marx Went to the fair And what did they there?
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Dostoyevsky… (A name you like saying) Dostoyevsky clearly understood The workings of the human mind. But there were times when
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Problem: I can now only be sure that life Exists if I am staring at a screen, Between laughing and
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The sad thing about being a princess Is that, nowadays, The king has promised half his kingdom To the income
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I will drive home indirectly, I have a fear of turning right. Oncoming cars head straight towards me, pedestrians obscure
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We wished upon a white blackbird because you said we must, Because it was lucky. I don’t know what you
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Fido the elephant staggered home tipsy, Dead to the world with a hole in his trunk. That’s what comes of
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Put down your paper. Yes, this concerns you. Your womenfolk are grieving. The world that you made, That you are
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