(RL) Dan

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <4.3.2.7.2.20010617214111.00b5dba8@pop3.norton.antivirus>,
Jim Kauffman <jkauff@earthlink.net> writes
>Here are the opening lines to "Haitian Divorce" (1976):
>
>Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said
>So in love the preacher's face turned red
>Soon everybody knew the thing was dead
>
>Three lines (rhymed, no less) and you've learned that an oversexed Jewish 
>Princess ("Babs") fell in lust with a not-totally-sleazy street guy ("Clean 
>Willie" - a girl's got to have some standards, you know), got married in a 
>fever hotter 'n a pepper sprout, and burned it out within a few weeks. 
>That's not only major-league storytelling economy, it's completely visual, 
>too.
>
Hmm... yeah, but it sounds so.. (yawn) polite and boring... No, wait!
here comes another we-are-smart-proper-musicians noodly bit! Oh, I can
hardly contain... my excite... (zzzzzzzzz)
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Keith Allison
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