roustabouts

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it is he who

with a filthy

mouth calls

the world as

he sees it.


his eyes know

no prejudice,

just as his

tongue speaks

no lies.


he can tell

the maiden from

the whore, and

the nobleman

from the jester.


he is not well

liked, yet in

his self-loathing

state there is

a sense of

something no

bitch or cheat

could ever

hope to possess.

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