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<>From: GC.SUL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sullys Maze)
<>Subject: it rhymes so its no good for the poetry group
<>Date: 19 Jul 1994 17:02:10 -0700

                Half-Crazed Rower
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                there's grease on all my t-shirts
                all over my shorts and socks
                they seem to be ever semi-damp
                and smell bad as crap in crocks
                no one ever told me
                rowing could be this obscene
                I'm a semi-dirty rower
                trying to stay semi-clean

                my levis never fit me
                they're tight around the thighs
                I have to buy them baggy
                and take them in a size
                still my t-shirts fit quite loosely
                you don't want too much bulk
                I'm a semi-skinny rower
                trying to be a semi-hulk

                I have a little money
                very little to be sure
                my lack of it's a cancer
                that'll never find a cure
                I spend it all on food and rent
                and an occasional beer or coke
                once I was almost semi-rich
                but am staying semi-broke

                It makes life kinda interesting
                when you're dirty, poor, and lose
                one can only despair and wonder
                at the kind of life you choose
                still the victory you want real bad
                erases all the pain
                I'm just a half-crazed rower
                trying to stay half-sane


Mike Sullivan
Seattle   Feb. 1976