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FOR A MOMENT'S CREOLE

I'll give a basketball
To the Statue of Liberty
If you put down your books
And come outside
For a moment's creole

A horse! an old man! ransom
For a moment's creole
Pass the tequila and damn the socks
For a moment's creole

Now that lad there
Owns a whole corso in Siena,
And my aunt, sweet aunt,
Has a lien on my crown
But they'd all go vagrant
Through the islands of foam
Sweating all the winter
For a moment's creole.