11,521. MAXIM GORKY TOOK ALL THE MUSIC

MAXIM GORKY TOOK 

ALL THE MUSIC

I've never been French though I tried.

I walked through the Seine from a

left-bank cafe, leaping the little wall at

the Ile de Cite. Nothing ever worked out,

aye, nothing ever worked out for me:

Montmarte, Chartres, and the Tuileries

too. Champs Elysee? I'll never say.

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It worked the same, too, in Budapest.

I took that woman there, as she paid

all my fees and threw me a bonus  -

to get her across borders and stay

with her there. But I never liked the

food, never had much to say, and,

frankly never really knew where
the heck I was. 'Is this Buda, 
or is now Pest?'

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So many funny moments in the 

fandance of time. In America, I

don't think I've seen a real 'antique'

shop in forty years. In Europe, 

they seem to be everywhere.