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"Smoke if You Got'em" (Di Fonzo)

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So drink ‘em up kids, and smoke if you got ‘em.
Chow it down, Harry, and hurry in soon.
A wave has just risen, outside the barriers.
I’m just a clown blowing a, rough-hewn balloon.



While stealers are watching, behind windows of trivia,
For paranoid fishermen, dragging lagoons,
Of somebody foreclosing, sale upon India,
While landlords are renting out your, panic room.



So drink ‘em up kids, and smoke if you got ‘em.
Chow it down, Harry, and hurry in soon.
A wave has just risen, outside the barriers.
I’m just a clown blowing a, rough-hewn balloon.



Two clowns in a cabinet, arresting a letterpress.
Three clowns in a taxicab, humming this tune.
Four clowns in a subway, sniffing for fingerprints,
On one fool quoting Baudelaire and, drunk on cheap goon.



With a sentient fridge, in a room full of gelignite,
of a melancholy acrobat, swinging from the harpoon,
of a smack-addled rabbi, pining for Arafat,
Through a Baptist mandala, spelling out doom.



So drink ‘em up kids, and smoke if you got ‘em.
Chow it down, Harry, and hurry in soon.
A wave has just risen, outside the barriers.
I’m just a clown blowing a, rough-hewn balloon.

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These are dark days of debt, despots and arrogance.
Dark days of heartlessness in, harpies and hoons.
So drink em up kids, and smoke if you got em,
You’re just a clown blowing a, rough-hewn balloon.

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Rough-hewn balloon, rough-hewn balloon,

rough-hewn balloon, rough-hewn balloon.

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from Last Chiko Roll in a Run Down Tuck Shop (LP), released November 4, 2019

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Suburban Bukowskis Sydney, Australia

Upbeat, folky, funny neo-beatnik tales of failure, fun, and excess in the wild inner-west are trademark of the narrative poem-songs (or pongs) penned by award-winning playwright and poet, Benito Di Fonzo. Accompanied by veteran bassist Mike Sheehan, drummer Justine Wahlin, and lead guitarist Pete Fenwick. Rhum.org.au called Benito's writing, "Clever, witty, sharp and surreal.” " ... more

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