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Piggy Muldoon, Archie Bunker, bowls; I’ve come to know these are his favourite topics when he’s talkative rather than dark.
And there’s trendy lefties who he doesn’t seem to like much though I try and keep out of his way as he doesn’t like us making noise and is always telling us to ssshhhh especially when he’s watching TV and since he’s joined a brass band he practices a double bass which depending on the wind you can hear from our fort up the back where we sometimes play along blowing wet raspberries.
But today he’s sitting in his chair talking about something that makes me tune in as it’s about a lady who was sexually attacked and a jury who started arguing as eleven said he’s guilty one says it was a lie and I want to know what happened but he can be hard to understand when he talks in circles like that yet I can tell he’s feeling particularly proud that he’s the one.
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There was a hippo in our lounge
we’d feed it and meet it’s every care
and then pretend it wasn’t there.
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