PREVIOUS TENANTS
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Carol whenever Carol
and roof top forever too far bananas
Rick Astley won't come down he's calm though
as club soda filled with bananas
Enough beautiful armpits of failure
whenever she made a sandwich
a thousand steel college boys lifted her up
so high you could see her knickers
she made a sandwich and everyone she knew
sent her flowers including her tycoon brother Alfie
who used to tie her dolls to his bike and drive up and down
the icy driveway mimicing Hitler or Darth Vader or Alice Cooper
"Stop it Kevin!" she would scream.
Soon she would be the one giving the orders.
Soon she would be won lasagna odours.
Soon she would gravel and brick and knee-tear
because of all the overwhelming applause from the sofa
Just because she made a fucking sandwich
They turned off Jersey Shore and the Deleuze home shopping network
Just because she made a sandwich and put parsley in her cat's hair
She did those things and the steel mill college boys who bought her
ice cream once as a lawn dart lark applauded
and Carol was fully clothed with the clothes that she chose on her own
Brighton Avenue spawned a monster 124 days before
Halloween's grandmother gave birth to Halloween Jr..