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SOME LUCK
I’ve waited too long.
It’s the story of my life, right?
First, the hospital where I was born
an’ my mama left me.
Then that house with no heat
where people always was dyin’–
my grandma, my grandpa, my uncle–
when I hear about my daddy dyin’
I figure that’s it.
So what else I gotta lose?
Back then how could I know
it was only the beginnin’?
PLAYIN’ THE GAME OF NO GO
What can I say, eh? Guess I’m called
to a life of leisure. I don’t need
a job to make it. I don’t need
them big bucks everybody wants. I don’t need
to feel important ’cause I got more,
got better, got fools noddin’ an’ sayin’
Yeah, he the man. I don’t need much.
I mean how much can you eat?
How much booze can you drink?
How much sex is enough?
Well, there’s love too.
If you got that.
If you only got that . . . .
FAMILY RELATIONS
I got a couple of brothers
I don’t wanna talk about.
They talk ’bout me plenty
not to me, but
they was always gettin’ in trouble
when they was little.
Nothin’ changed much.
But like I said,
I don’t wanna talk about it.
I got sisters too.
An’ then there’s my mother
but that’s another story
I ain’t gonna tell.