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And from my service days,
I was in the army stationed

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in Heidelberg,
Germany, an area which,

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in the wintertime at least,
has a great deal of fog.

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This is really an older
poem for my army days.

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It has a Spanish title, "El
Pez de la Noche" which means,

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of course, "The
Fish of the Night."

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We soldiers-- you know
how soldiers are at night.

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We had nothing better to do but
roam around foggy Heidelberg.

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And this dripping damp weather
created quite an impression

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on me.

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"The fish of the night carries
a yellow lantern in his mouth.

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His tail is made of a sickle.

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His stomach is full of
sleeping men and women.

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He floats down alleys and the
rabbits kick in their dreams.

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He glides down the
street and bumps his nose

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against the windows.

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The fish of the night
wears a joker's cap,

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hung with tin bells and a fat
monk's belt around his girth.

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He lifts a leg to pee on
the corner of a building.

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And waking in the
middle of the night,

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you can smell his stale
breath as he passes in search

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of vendors and empty bottles."

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