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          Every time you get to thinking
          you're going to put it down, give up the drink,
          an angel loses its will to live.

          But every time you take a penny
          out of this here wishing well,
          Jim, the cops will come and steal your car.
          Isn't this funny. A whole world that is stocked
          with well-heeled miracles:
          A pregnant woman stares too long
          at a light bulb
          and gives birth to a light bulb.
           
          Or then listen up: an old woman
          with a true story in her ever-thickening heart
          steps on a needle. The needle works
          its way to her heart, see,
          to stick there. There it casts a heavy 
           
          Simian shadow, the needle's
          dark forebrow splits her in two.
          O Jim, here it is then. And what could it ever be:
          a true angel. A brilliance. Her darker story, 
          or just this needle in the heart?