Yesterday I said:
“If I lose this battle
I will come home
In a casket”
I lost
And returned in a casket
Alive and well
Blazing a fat cigar
“If I lose this battle
I will come home
In a casket”
I lost
And returned in a casket
Alive and well
Blazing a fat cigar
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