Original Post Date
2011-08-21 10:37 AM
Original Body
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In elementary School he was/p
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The guy with the/p
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Old face/p
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Thatrsquo;s what we/p
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Called him,/p
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emOld face/em/p
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He was 11 or 12/p
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But looked/p
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About 70/p
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He was a Chinese kid/p
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that resembled an innocent/p
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bystander in a kung span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="fu" data-scaytid="1"fu/span movie who was/p
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humble and industriousnbsp;but got his/p
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ass kicked by the local king pin#39;s/p
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boys/p
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He barely spoke/p
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And when he did/p
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It was usually inaudible/p
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He dressed like an old/p
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Man, pants that looked/p
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Like pajama bottoms and shoes/p
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That looked like slippers/p
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But in reality/p
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he was not that far/p
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removed from diapers/p
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Wersquo;d call him old face/p
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And bully him in/p
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Little ways like killing him/p
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In four square/p
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He spoke with his eyes that/p
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Said he wanted to kill us/p
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With a sharp object or plant/p
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A nicely executed kung span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="fu" data-scaytid="3"fu/span kick/p
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Into our asses/p
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The years went by and/p
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Now wersquo;re heading towards/p
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50 and when I looked up from/p
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The bus stop the other day I/p
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Saw a face/p
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It was/p
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Him/p
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same pants that looked/p
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like pajama bottoms,/p
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same slippers/p
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Same/p
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Eyes/p
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new/p
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facenbsp;/p
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copy; 2011 Tony Robles/p