See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry. ✨ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958). A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, p.22, New Directions Publishing
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