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Allan Kaufmann |
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The Saddest Man on Earth |
The saddest man on Earth …
ignored how the rain felt as he left home for the last time
Wore down his boot heels searching for the woman of his dreams but never understood that life is woman
Lived in a town where sadness was illegal and where grinning cops ticketed his face so often that he lost his license to cry
The saddest man on Earth tuned guitars but couldn’t play them cheated the IRS of his refund fathered a child who thought she saw him in perfect strangers yet did not recognize him face to face
I met him once in a bar toasting the mirror with his stare He had come south to start life over
He was a Mozart of silence |
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