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Calm & Aloof
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by Elvis Bojangles
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The
Lightning bolt
Cracks & poof
Suddenly I am calm & aloof
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Oh wily spirit dame
You’ve smoldered my hat
Oh smiley spirit dame
How’d you learn to do that?
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I don’t remember standing-up
Some how in suit n’ tails dressed-up
Holding in my hand a silver tray all shined-up
on which sits a coffee pot & cup
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Oh smily spirit dame
In flannel shirt & jeans
Oh wily spirit dame
How’d you find the means?
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“Serve me”
Condescendingly says you
Sitting at a table that is ridiculously
overdue
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The colossal
Cathedral inside a humble tent
Smiles like God
At the tail-end of Lent
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The hot coffee I calmly aloofly pour
Like I’ve done this some place else before
“We’re equals. You may sit too.”
Magnanimously says you
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& I better believe
It’s true
As one coffee cup
Turns into two
!
