Jessica Amanda Salmonson Poet Lyric

The Romance of David and Michelle

She's fat and she's ugly and she smokes and she smells
	and she scares all the children on the street
Every child runs to hide when she screams, when she yells
	but a man down the block thinks she's sweet.

He's old and he's dirty and he lives all alone
	and he suffers from a dread disease
The sight of this woman makes him sigh, makes him moan
	and he don't give a damn about her fleas.

While scrounging through the dump for a new set of threads
They per chance came to meet eye to eye
With smiles on their lips and music in their heads
They felt nearly young enough the fly high.

Now they live in a trailer on the back of a lot
	and if you have no cotton in your ears
You can hear the echoes of the fights they have fought
	so they lived ever happy through the years.

-1968

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