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"The American Dream - Far From Home"
Bert's Burger Bar! Beryl's best bet for a better breakfast.
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                                                      Beryl the bounteous bourgeois bohemian

                                                          Strumming a break the plates ballad

                                                            For the rubbles to buy a breakfast

                                                              Of butchered bacon and beans

                                                                  Boiled to rise with yeast

                                                                      Baked into bread

                                                                        Toasted brown

                                                                        In a brass bowl

                                                                      With blueberry jam

                                                                    Served hot on the table

                                                                  Black coffee without milk

                                                                  Unless a tip arrives in time

                                                                For the chef carving the bacon

                                                              Lying in bits and pieces torn apart

                                                          A beautiful sight for beggars passing by

                                                    Please buy the aprons for us to wash the dishes

                                            At Bert's Burger Bar! Beryl's best bet for a better breakfast

                                    Followed by a parrot-fish cleaned and soaked with spicy rice in a pan

                                          Poached with some pears on a gas stove bolted to a bicycle

                                                On the crowded steps of the Bolshevik ballet theater

                                                            With pigeon eggs served over easy

                                                                      The American dream

                                                                          Far from home -



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