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"There was a rose called
"Guy de Maupassant."

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A carmine pink that smelled
like a Granny Smith.

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And there was another from
the 17th century that wept too

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much in wilted when you looked.

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And one that caused
tuberculosis,

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doctors dug them up,
they wore white masks

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and posted warnings
in the windows.

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One wet day and started
to hail and pellets

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the size of snowballs
fell in the roses.

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It's hard for me to look
at a Duchess of Windsor,

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it was worn by Franco and
Mussolini, it stabbed Jews.

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Yesterday, I bought six
roses from a Haitian

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on Lower Broadway, he wrapped
them in blue tissue paper.

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It was starting to snow and both
of us had on the wrong shoes.

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It was wind, he said, not
snow that ruined roses and all

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you had to do was hold
them against your chest.

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He had a ring on his
pinkie the size of a grape

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and half his teeth were gone.

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So I loved him and spoke to
him in false Creole for which

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he hugged me, and enveloped
me in his camel hair coat

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with most of the
buttons missing,

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and we were brothers for
life we swore it in French."

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