Something i didn’t try, Bill, just cigs in a packet & quite.
Maybe drop the first ‘the[ in line 2?
Given how much in the past it is, I hear ‘bot’ as an anachronism…?
Doug
> On May 28, 2019, at 5:06 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Couldn’t walk out the door
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> without the patting of the pockets.
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> Had to hear the reassuring pants rattle
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> - little wood against little wood,
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> red nubs forward, blacks back
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> And the shirt pocket plastic plop
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> of the ready-rubbed tobacco packet
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> Needing to be so armed
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> to take on the day
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> and not be a bot
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> The thrill of tucking in the Tally Ho paper
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> behind the tiny finger-log
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> of moustache-like tobacco,
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> getting that roll right
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> before the crowning lick
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> And then the poke,
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> even a black-dead match will do
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> and the twirl for the mouth end
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> Moisten lips, insert,
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> - now the striking of the match
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> Never looked cool
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> Never felt cool
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> Anyone watching me light up
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> would cack themselves
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> James Dean never
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> went cross-eyed
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> I miss the way
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> those inhalations and exhalations
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> inhabited my system
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> charging me
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> No more stoking
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> the engine of being
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> Feel a little like
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> an unhitched caboose
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> bw
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