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51 lines
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Minnie the Freak
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by Leslie Fish
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Minnie Goucher was a circus freak, made a living seven days a week
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Sitting pretty, letting people stare -- Minnie just laughed and didn't care.
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Minnie weighed a quarter ton. As for lovers, she had none.
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And she never expected one -- till she met Jojo, the carny bum.
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Minnie was sitting in her tent one night, playing poker with Bob the Fright
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No-legs Johnny and Hairy Sue; and Jojo he watched for a round or two.
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They sang and laughed and joked as they played
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About the weather and the trains delayed
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Good, close buddies as you'd ever see -- but Jojo watched Minnie wickedly.
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Of all the sideshow, Minnie was the star -- was thanks to her
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the circus got so far
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She got a big percentage of the take, and thinking of that kept Jojo awake.
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He dealt himself in for a hand, sweet-talked Minnie to beat the band
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Sue got mad, Bob began to cough -- they knew damn well
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what was coming off.
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He worked on Minnie for three weeks or four
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-- she'd never run into romance before
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It bowled her over like a ton of lead
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-- she started giving Jojo all of her bread.
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Johnny warned her, Bob did too. She got a lecture from Hairy Sue.
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But Minnie said, "It's my only chance to find why they sing about romance."
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So then they told her, "Look, we wish you well. This might work out
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-- only time can tell
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We don't know anything of love, it's true
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-- we only know like, and we like you.
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But this we've learned just living here as ugly outcasts year on year
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Good, brave hearts and minds remain when beauty and grace
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goes down the drain."
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Cut back to Jojo singing "Love is Blind",
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not telling Minnie all that's on his mind
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He said they'd marry in the early fall, asked for some cash, and took it all.
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Minnie awoke alone and sad, she thought it out and said, "I won't get mad,
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Hell, it was fun, and worth the price... but only a fool would do it twice."
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A few months after Jojo ran away, he died of smack OD somewhere in LA
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Minnie laughed when she heard the news,
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And said to her friends, "Let's sing some blues:
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Like, 'Love is a cheat, love is a lie, build up your hopes just to watch 'em
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die
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Now here's the truth by the bucketful:
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There's sex and there's friendship, the rest is bull.'"
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