Video by Tom Waits
A little confection from the anti-crooner, Tom Waits.

More about Chocolate Jesuses and other confections for those suffering some level of incredulity.
Let us not forget the famous Abba-Zaba, about which, apparently, we should all know.
And the lyrics, as ennunciation is not always Mr. Waits’ strongest suit:

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by Rudy H. García
A ver, mi niña hermosa… linda y cariñosa
Ven aqui,
Dime algo,
Platicame de el…
Platicame de ese joven que ahora le dedicas mas de tu tiempo que a mi.
Es bueno? Sera sincero? Se comporta cono un futuro galan, O… un futuro ser caballero?
Dime,
Cuentame, de las rondas que el te da,
A donde van? Caminan en plena [...]

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Comment by Ruth E. Wagner
It’s ironic that here in the United States and throughout the rest of the World when protests against environmental, health and safety issues involving corporate animal farming occur, they are often dismissed, or even silenced, by those corporations and their enabling and friendly governments.
But when the results of this folly, [...]

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By Gene Novogrodsky
Kids played into the dusk, then dark ….
The boarding house windows,
Screenless, permitted their jump-rope
And ball sounds ….
The time, before Vietnam,
Before guns,
Before drugs,
And the kids played,
And I slept ….

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