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suburban bungalow

by gordon foster

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blue skies daily 01:42
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red plastic radio 03:48
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i had a little red plastic radio with an earplug that i could fit in one ear i used to listen to it in the evening or late at night sometimes in the summer i would go out into the yard and feel the damp grass on my bare feet i had to be careful closing the screen door not to wake anybody up you had to open the radio right up to change the nine volt battery i learned how to check an old battery for any remaining voltage with my tongue lying on my back on the picnic table i could see a thousand stars that was when i was beginning middle school i had earned the radio as a prize with my paper route by successfully knocking on doors to collect for a weekly that was actually free i still have the small trophy for the top carrier club and the big steel basket from the back of my old bike
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bubble glaze 01:14
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i miss the skinheads 01:46
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dubious 02:38
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the sick tune 00:53
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decade dance 03:02
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hanging out in the park 04:00
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hanging out in the park in the afternoon or after dark dewy summer mornings, frosty winter days fireworks at the back of the garden at the end of spring to celebrate the queen burning down the schoolhouse as the summer's just about to start call on all the neighbours, grab the bats and gloves a little pickup football touch turns to shove tadpoles in the pond and some running birds once we saw a pheasant, once we saw a fox when they put in the high-rise had to check our locks kids would wander past that we'd not seen before just starting high school met some pretty girls sitting on a bench with their cares to the world took them skating at the rink and sometimes walked them home tracy sat on my lap and i kept her warm one late november evening and our hearts were torn she snuck out sometimes and we'd talk until dawn why's the grass all wet, has it been raining no, that's just dew don't want to talk to you you're always teasing me and think i don't know the talk with tracy that i miss the most was the time she told me that she got too close and she was at my window just the night before hanging out in the park in the afternoon or after dark dewy summer mornings, frosty winter days
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accessory 01:29
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let me be your accessory
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girls next door 02:22
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go 01:19
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coda a la mode 02:14
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jump around 00:58
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serenade 02:41
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driving rain 02:11
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chiaroscuro take two 02:08
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persistent indifference 02:31
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tim 03:12
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i had a dream about… …bean water and sugar dough played my heart out for the maple leafs won the cup and earned celebrity money's now the only thing i need i'll get rich selling… spent a lot of time out on the road winter nights can get a little cold stale dry doughnuts and a cup of joe put my name on… i'll be remembered for...
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a saucerful 04:11
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by the sea 02:10
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august 03:05
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evening song 02:52
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loop station alpha 02:18
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past loop station alpha where the stars glow cold light years out and never coming home see the engines sputter feel the rocket glide suited up and strapped in for the ride at the distant fringes of the great beyond no transmissions, no one knows you're gone past loop station alpha where the stars glow cold light years out and never coming home
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clean slate 03:34
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women and drugs 08:53
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drugs and women, women and drugs will drop you right down to the floor or else pull out the rug how'd you get here? i heard bob ask doug it's one thing or the other: women or drugs thirty-five years straight and clean but holding for a friend his ex-wife doesn't like it so he's back in jail again a sixty year-old rasta with dreds down to the ground had a bit of weed on him so it's off to the pound drugs and women, women and drugs will empty out that cup of cheer and land you in the jug how'd you get here? i heard bob ask doug it's one or the other, either women or drugs a little kind old hindu with twelve kids from one spouse had been in once before and been booted from his house his wife called him back over, said that there were bills to pay he asked her kindly for his ID now they've thrown the key away drugs and women, women and drugs lying in the gutter or snug as a bug how'd you get here? i heard bob ask doug it's that one thing or that other thing, either women or drugs a young soft-spoken fellow, a clean-cut ladies man dumped his gal on saturday, come monday in the can as he was getting hauled away she ran up to his door don't drag him off to jail! she cried, but that's what jails are for drugs and women, women and drugs put 'em in your pipe and smoke 'em, or offer them a hug how'd you get here? i heard bob ask doug well it was either that one thing or the other, women or drugs forget about the gangsters, those kids that play with guns the menace to society that needs to be undone is guys who can't get on at times with gals or kids or wives and fellas who need substances to get on with their lives drugs and women, women and drugs lying in the gutter, or snug as a bug how'd you get here? i heard bob ask doug well it had to be that one or the other thing, women or drugs i know it's not much of a song, not even much of a poem but i'm talking now to every man who doesn't need a home my advice for all of you who can't leave 'em well enough alone is get a lawyer's number (tattooed) on your arm and hope he's by the phone drugs and women, women and drugs put 'em in your pipe and smoke 'em, or offer them a hug how'd you get here? i heard bob ask doug it was that one thing or the other, women or drugs

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released June 24, 2013

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gordon foster Toronto, Ontario

Well, it's just me again. I can now settle back into last winter's cold weather routine and continue with my next creative endeavour, a musical adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward.

During the meanwhilst, please enjoy my current humble offerings.

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