mockingbird blues

from the top of his head
to the tip of his shoes,
he's got those
horrible terrible
mockingbird blues.
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a pbs station had a funding drive.

the station's manager came on and says: "hey -- i upped my pledge to pbs. now up yours!"
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sapphistry: sophistry to explain or justify lesbianism.
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immigrants love their old country like a parent, but they love their new country like a spouse.
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i say no to drugs.
i keep saying it, too.
but the drugs just won't listen.
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they didn't fall in love. it was more like they fell into lust.
and from that, they fell into bed.
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crystaline thinking --
alcoholic drinking --
your life, lost -- sinking --
a terrible thing.
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instead of human beings, call them hume beans or hume bings.
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when someone mentions the huddled masses yearning to be free, does that include the africans that came over on the slave ships?
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the black dude was tired of white kids acting all gangsta and shit, going around saying "yo yo -- represent!" the only white people he wanted to represent him was his attorney or his congressman.