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You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
In an envelope marked: PERSONAL God addressed me a letter. In an envelope marked: PERSONAL
Big Boy came Carrying a mermaid On his shoulders And the mermaid Had her tail
The ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelv… While the people
Let’s go see Old Abe Sitting in the marble and the moon… Sitting lonely in the marble and t… Quiet for ten thousand centuries,… Quiet for a million, million years…
It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.
Goin’ down the road, Lawd, Goin’ down the road. Down the road, Lawd, Way, way down the road. Got to find somebody
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da… I built my hut near the Congo and…
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie—woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely:
I live on a park bench. You, Park Avenue. Hell of a distance Between us two. I beg a dime for dinner—
I am God— Without one friend, Alone in my purity World without end. Below me young lovers
Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple?
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf—Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says… new Waldorf—Astoria: