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See I-- this poem I sang-- read
at a high school earlier today

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and I was hoping that
maybe they would--

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I don't know if they all had
as much emotional attachment

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to their cars as I did.

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But I did.

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And this is a poem for my
fabulous Volkswagen Bug

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that I had when I was 16.

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So it's called "Wheels."

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"You can't have anything
forever, not your bride

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or your skin, not even
your trusty Volkswagen.

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The joke is on us.

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The body and the bed may
not be a body at all,

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but bed made to look like body.

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When you thought a
beloved was about to enter

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it wouldn't have mattered.

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They were all actors.

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Sometimes you need a prop
to go through with it.

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Other times you need to
stand among low brown hills

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empty handed.

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Oh, perfect silver Bug,
you overheated only once.

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I was 17, and I was
driving back to the place

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where I learned
how to be alone."

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