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Christmas Cliff

MCD
12/24&$047;2012

I got the greasy pizza blues
and Santa isn’t coming down
my chimney tonight, so put
your quarter into the red salvation
can, maybe me and my friends can eat
at the Hari Krishna temple down
on Clancy street

I swore off the booze long ago
but this Richie Rich hangover
is just about killing me,
got nothing to give
the kids but love, though
they want a trike or doll
maybe even something sweet
to fill their bellies with

so when you see me with my
hand out wishing you and yours
it’s not my nature to beg
but think of that party you
had with the swells and the
bells in champagne gowns
tippy toeing in silver slippers
and plenty of hooch to boot

maybe a buck eighty
is just a tad to steep, drop
a copper in the kettle then
like Dickens once said, it
will feed me and my ilk
porridge with milk,
and maybe my girls will
smile again an not hooker
the streets getting what ever
they can for tossing it
around like spoiled meat

so ho ho ho, I wish you
a merry merry and something
to eat, and if you see that hat,
on the curb belonging to me,
drop a nickel in and I’ll sing
a song of woe, just for you,
and all of the lords
living on Liberty boulevard
a million miles away from
broke ass flats

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