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Oh this is another poem
that comes from Advice

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To The Confused.

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I heard a lady
interviewed on the radio,

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she had made up
a book of sayings

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that mothers told
their daughters what

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to do when you go out on dates.

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Of course, this
was all new to me,

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because I never had any
sisters in my family.

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And she mentioned Mad Money.

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Do people still know
what Mad Money is?

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Yeah.

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OK, have some in your
shoe tonight there?

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And also some wonderfully
delicious phrases that

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of course, I
couldn't let slip by,

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one was that nothing good
can happen after midnight,

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don't we all know that?

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At one word you may not
know in the poem is a Kepi

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that's K-E-P-I, that is or at
least was a type of military

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hat that French soldiers wore
with sloping crown the little

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rim on it.

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It's called of course,
Famous Musicians.

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Because mothers
tell their daughters

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that nothing good can
happen after midnight

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and to their sorrow
some believe it,

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and go on to become grim but
famous musicians, or worse

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avid editors of
entomological magazines,

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while the others whom I never
seem to meet sneaking in late

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keep that as a secret
and licking their lips

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pretend to be obedient.

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I have gone off and
joined the Foreign Legion,

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There laying siege
to native cities.

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I'm as bloodthirsty as the
rest scaling the ramparts,

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but that's also a pretense.

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In times of peace, raising
two fingers to my kepi,

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really I'm a
saluting a demagogue,

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the only thing alive on
this blazing moonscape,

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a priest in disguise having
given up on art because it's

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too easy and looking
for some storm

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wrecked soul just like
me, but weaker to convert.

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Finally, we find each other.

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And because it's
dangerous we take weeks

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before getting
around to exchanging

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religious experiences.

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Only then do we
discover something,

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he's really a woman
dressed up like a man.

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For the rest of our enlistments
that's our Mad Money.

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Later we have a baby, born with
a tattoo dated 1917 and long

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sensitive pianist's fingers.

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I'm really not that strange.

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