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here comes baby

I was in the Love
Way, the Great Wanna.
I was looking to fall
on the right guy.
He said, ‘I kind of adore
waiting about a person
in a big 40s car. Let’s
ride aground, tie a
romance down.’
I said, ‘I need
a powder-rough dater,
some Wow Stuff. Now,
make me need you,
for I oh! to hold someone.’
He sank the telephone
into my desert heart, drew
a criss-cross pattern
on the walls of the
invisible shrine.
He said, ‘I’ll baby the dishes
when the kitchen is too much.
I wanna walk & talk want.’
He dived into my
tragedy, tearing into
our lovers’ walk. ‘Just
don’t leave me bare, OK
muscle man,’ I yelled
out to the back
of his leather coat as he
walked into the pouring rain of a
night lit up with a big, pale
moon, already thinking
about the cowboy boots he
needed to walk into
the next woman’s pop song.
 
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Angela Andrews
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David Beach
Ken Bolton
Jenny Bornholdt
Rachel Bush
Mary Cresswell
Stephanie De Montalk
Cliff Fell
Tom Fitzsimons
Brian Flaherty
David Geary
Bernadette Hall
Kerry Hines
Andrew Johnston
Therese Lloyd
Iggy McGovern
Mary Macpherson
Dora Malech
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Emma Neale
Gregory O'Brien
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