I know karate, Voodoo too. I’m gonna make myself available to you.
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Tom’s Song: Goin’ Out West
Image from “American Times (1960s)”
Source: theseamericans.com
If you went to the carnival and no one was missing a tooth, you’d want your money back.
Source: thenational.ae
God’s green hair is where I slept last. He balanced a diamond on a blade of grass.
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Tom’s Song: Bottom of the World
Image unknown but found here
Source: srotn.wordpress.com
I put food on the table and a roof over our head but I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Tom’s Song: The Long Way Home
Image from Carl Mydans
Source: gallerym.com
On the train you get smaller as you get farther away. The roar covers everything you wanted to say.
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Tom’s Song: 2:19
Image from O. Winston Link
Source: artnet.com
She left in the fall. That’s her picture on the wall. She always had that little drop of poison.
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Tom’s Song: Little Drop of Poison
Image from Harvey Stein*
* Street-photographer extraordinaire Harvey Stein is speaking tonight at ICP. I wish I could go but I have plans to see the bushwhacking aesthete Lord Whimsy instead.
Source: sohophoto.com
They say I don’t have any hits and that I’m difficult to work with, and they say it like it’s a bad thing.
I drink 1000 shipwrecks. Tonight I’ll steal your paychecks.
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Tom’s Song: I’ll Be Gone
Image from Anders Petersen
Source: anderspetersen.se
Source: collections.mcny.org
And the naked mannikins with their Cheshire grins. And the raconteurs and roustabouts said “Buddy, come on in.”
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Tom’s Song: Small Change
Image from Andreas Feininger
Source: collections.mcny.org
