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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{which bone, mama, upstairs?}
  shanti perez


Mama, I’ve got a wishbone tore a hole in my pocket
when I was out carvin dairy cows that were lame
from standin in mud all day and     now
I can’t find the needle n thread     dead
They’ve gone’n shot up all them hogs     rotten
left them there all night n the flies’re out     buzzin,
wishbone’s busted in two, thread’s upstairs,      I remember