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Paper In Fire

She had a dream
And boy it was a good one
So she chased after her dream
With much desire
But when she get too close
To her expectations
Well the dream burned up
Like paper in fire
Chorus:
Paper in fire
Stinkin up the ashtrays
Paper in fire
Smokin up the alleyways
Whos to say the way
A man should spend his days
Do you let them smolder
Like paper in fire
He wanted love
With no involvement
So he chased the wind

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song performed by John Mellencamp
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Sugar Man

There are shadows on the sidewalks
Of the city streets at night,
And the alleyways and ugly things
Are hidden from the light.
And somewhere, son, my babys
Gonna sell her soul again,
For a custom tailored lady-killer
They call sugar man.
I searched the backstreet barrooms,
And every cheap hotel,
Asking for my baby; they all knew her well.
Well, they said, shes out there working
For the wages of her sin,
And if you want to find your baby, baby,
Look for sugar man.
Well, tonight I found her
On the sorry side of town
Lying cold upon the bed
Where she had laid her body down.
I picked up the needle that had fallen from her hand

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song performed by Kris Kristofferson
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Interlude

Meandering in shotgun alleyways,
Cradling a pseudo-leonine soul astray—
Vagrant without a name but a tale,
Do not unfurl yours if you can't stay.

poem by Norman Santos
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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

quote by Erica Jong
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

quote by Booker T. Washington
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The Foreboding

You will not find them here, or anywhere perhaps,
But every now and then there is a hint
Of empty streets,
And down past alleyways and hidden squares
The tall, dry rooms of our illicit love.

poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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Catwalk

she's perfected the placement of each paw
out from the alleyways of backyard walls
balances on chalk-marks
where the strobe-light falls

pussycats her shoulders
at the back-cloth of applause
wide-eyed and breathless
at the sheathing of her claws

poem by STEPHEN BRIAN Brady
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My Mad Dog

Just walkin'
my mad dog
down a sideways street

Passin' backwards
up dreaded alleyways

Cashin' in
on postmortem prejudice

Me an' my mad dog

just walkin'

Motto for the moment:

Walk your own mad dog!
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poem by Rifka Rebeccah
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Fifth Avenue At Twilight

Across the moonlit painted skies
The lonely windows weep
And in their faces candles creep
Much to the night's demise
Shadows walk the alleyways
They slither through the grime
Crooked top hats droop with time
Deflecting others' gaze
Trees are few and weak under trial
As smog accumulates
And all life slowly suffocates
Under its ashen smile

poem by Argentine Tango
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Harlem Wine

This is not water running here,
These thick rebellious streams
That hurtle flesh and bone past fear
Down alleyways of dreams

This is a wine that must flow on
Not caring how or where
So it has ways to flow upon
Where song is in the air.

So it can woo an artful flute
With loose elastic lips
Its measurements of joy compute
With blithe, ecstatic hips.

poem by Countee Cullen
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