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   From: pepp@cyberdude.com   
      
   sorry im late (confessions of a street entertainer)   
   ***   
      
   "i dont get it"   
   "how does it work ?"   
      
   he's just singin away   
   got em spellbound with his virtuosity   
   or the drugs and th episs and finally started workin   
      
   and i roll in on the unicycle   
   crash into the wall   
   sit down   
      
   look up   
   and say   
      
   sorry im late   
   and just start singin background   
      
   "and he goes"   
   "that's alright"   
   "even though you've both done it twenty times that night"   
      
   yeah   
      
      
   something like that   
      
   "does it work ?"   
      
   does it matter ?   
      
      
   "but five times in one night"   
   "with different buskers is unusual ?"   
   would be at the moment   
      
   +++   
      
   id roll in to sing with robbie   
   with a surfboard under arm   
      
   boppin away on th  unicycle   
   ppl would yell out   
      
   you goin surfin man ?   
   was fun to pull up   
   and sing with a busker mate   
   and lean your surfboard against the wall   
      
   and then try to find a place for the unicycle   
   so that ppl wont trip over it   
      
   +++   
      
      
   big heavy guys   
   fighting in the street falling on you   
   is one of the risks that buskers just dont tell ya about   
      
   they aren't attacking you   
   they are falling on you   
      
   and on some occasions   
      
   ladies fighting   
   do the same damn thing   
      
   im sittin cross legged   
   playin a bongo   
   and singin girlie   
      
   and this fuckin chick   
   lands in my lap   
   goin off at this bitch   
   and how she's gunna fuckin do her and shit   
      
   guy im singin with   
   is laughin at me   
   ok   
   she was good lookin   
   and there are an awful lot of actors in the street   
      
   not in the league of the faller though   
   he got womble   
   got him good   
      
   i got the slapfall like everybody else   
   but umm   
      
   i had caught the three falls he'd done   
   comin down the footpath   
   and the havoc he was leavin behind him   
      
   "wasn't his grilfriend wet ?"   
   ok   
   she was havin a fuckin good time   
      
   +++   
      
      
   "so ya gotta giggle back at him ?"   
   ya might say that   
      
   +++   
      
   im singin with robbie   
   this redheaded chick   
   sits down next to me   
      
   and sings along   
      
   after a bit   
   she pulls out this joint   
      
   now robbie and i   
   are workin the cab rank at surfers paradise   
   ya gotta captive crowd   
   and if they go off   
      
   it drags the streetwalkers along   
   ya get a free bunch of spruikers   
   if ya dig it ?   
      
   so there's a stack of ppl   
   watchin   
   nuthin else to do   
      
   this joint is massive   
      
   think six inches   
   actual   
      
   asks if i smoke   
   does the pope shit in the woods ?   
      
   lights up   
      
   has a big hit   
   hands to me   
   i have a big hit   
   robbie looks over   
      
   i've gone quiet   
   i'm holdin a six inch joint   
   burnin just nice   
   and offerin it to him   
      
   he stops playin   
   we all smoke it   
   sittin there   
   with the cabrank watchin   
      
   fully half of em smoked   
   heard a couple of mutterings   
   but ya know   
   not one walked over and went   
      
   hey man , can i have a toke ?   
   it's all it would have taken   
      
   that a few testicles   
      
   sweetest joint in the street ever   
      
   the three of us laughed our heads off   
   nodded to the coppers   
      
   i got back on the unicycle   
   break over   
   picked up my surfboard   
      
   put it up on one hand   
   and started flyin the surfboard in   
   the seabreeze   
   th wrong way down the one way street   
   +++   
      
   i gotta leave man   
   the cops have spotted me   
      
   no shit   
   i was in a copchase earlier   
      
   this is gunna be fun   
      
   sirens on   
   and pull me over   
   right in front of terry   
      
   self confessed   
   stand up street comedian   
      
   we were both gigglin about it   
   as it was happening   
   i mean really   
      
   chasin a unicycle with a big bad police car   
   with the siren on   
      
   and even then   
   ya didn;t book me for anything   
      
   he doesn;t like me that guy   
   have we done him before ?   
      
   +++   
      
      
   pull up to sing with womble   
   with two hot coffees   
   id gotten from the hot coffee van   
      
   womble liked crashes   
   and i'd milk em   
      
   just step off the unicycle as i came level   
   and maybe give it a kick   
      
   and run down to a stop   
   and just hand over his coffee unspilt   
   sit down   
      
   and he'd launch back into the song he was singin   
   and id slip into background   
      
   or   
      
   street background   
   which is   
   reinforcement   
      
   sing the same   
   not over the top   
   if ya can help it   
   but alongside   
      
   cause there's LOTS of noise   
   and ya have to get above it   
      
   just to be heard   
      
   +++   
      
   sing with more than one busker   
   if you're ever thinkin about it   
      
   or for the adventurous   
      
   try robert james   
   in the street at surfers paradise   
   and sing background   
   to mozart   
      
   +++   
      
      
   al was singin on the corner   
      
   i rolled in   
   sat down   
   started beltin along with al   
      
   he gave me a grin   
   we got on   
      
   punter steps outta the crowd   
   starts abusin me   
   where are my fuckin sunglasses ?   
      
   al wears sunnies   
   and plays under the lights   
      
   this night though   
   i left the sunnies behind   
      
   had to borrow a pair   
   and we went to back to   
   harmonizing on a theme   
      
   cause he couldn;t remember the ending   
   and we were bullshitting it   
      
   sometimes   
   all ya need to know is the first two paras   
   and they've walked on   
   and it's a crap song   
      
   and you fuckin stop   
      
   and that's when i go   
   play me somethin ya love man   
   original if you've got  it   
      
   i wanna fly   
   never really stoned till i've flown   
      
   get to the end of the song   
   and i go   
      
   what fuckin crowd ?   
      
   yeah   
   that was a good song   
      
   on ya dom...   
      
   +++   
      
   hope you had a lovely weekend too   
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