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Thank You for Your Time

from The Guardian by Matt Kaye

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Thank you for your time, they said
Now you're eating into ours
Was it just a joke? More likely
Their manifest of power
They know how to play the organ
They have all the dough
What you got is rhythm and a copy of
Hunting High And Low

On your desk you left your watch
Besotted with its job
Someone will come by and trash it
Causing it to stop
Someone will come by and trash it
Causing it to stop

Johnnie Ray was singing high
I am singing, too
Walking in the rain or not
Falling into you
City statues smile their smiles
And Macheath's back in town
Talk him into giving you
His England for your pound

Everybody wants to see
Love letters in the sand
Write a few, express yourself
Before you pitch your tent

You can bark and you can bite
And curse the Tower Guy
But there's no future-bending man
On a flaming pie
You can buy yourself a barrel
Be Diogenes
Do The Pony or some other
Form of expertise

Do The Hucklebuck or else
Andres-Valdes your mime
You can always sing in church
Thank you for your time

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from The Guardian, released August 1, 2019

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Matt Kaye Ljubljana, Slovenia

Born in 1975 in Maribor, Slovenia (EU). He holds a master’s degree in comparative literature. He published his first book in 1988 and started combining poetry and music into a singer-songwriter routine in 1992. He's a member of SLO National Writers’ Association, National Literary Translators Association, PEN and MIRA. ... more

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