Love is a hallucination that makes an otherwise sane man believe he can set up housekeeping on a gas stove and a canary bird.

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St. Paul Blues

When I’m dead bury me deep,

Bury me in the middle of St. Peter street;

Put my hands across my chest

And tell the girls I’ve gone to rest.

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“What a curve,” said the garter, as it came around the last stretch.

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