DESOLATION ROW: The Poll

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Sometimes I remember why people are so in love with Bobby Z.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world 2
Was that some kind of joke? 2
They're selling postcards of the hanging 1
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot 1
Bette Davis style 1
(About the time the door knob broke) 1
While calypso singers laugh at them 1
To her, death is quite romantic 1
Don't send me no more letters no 1
And the hunchback of Notre Dame 1
Where the heart-attack machine 1
To get him to feel more assured 0
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence 0
And the superhuman crew 0
Casanova is just being punished for going 0
After poisoning him with words 0
And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls 0
Now at midnight all the agents 0
To Desolation Row" 0
"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know 0
They're spoonfeeding Casanova 0
They're trying to blow it up 0
Now his nurse, some local loser 0
She's in charge of the cyanide hole 0
And she also keeps the cards that read 0
"Have Mercy on His Soul" 0
They all play on penny whistles 0
You can hear them blow 0
If you lean your head out far enough 0
From Desolation Row 0
Across the street they've nailed the curtains 0
They're getting ready for the feast 0
The Phantom of the Opera 0
A perfect image of a priest 0
Come out and round up everyone 0
That knows more than they do 0
Then they bring them to the factory 0
Where lovely mermaids flow 0
And nobody has to think too much 0
About Desolation Row 0
Yes, I received your letter yesterday 0
When you asked how I was doing 0
All these people that you mention 0
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame 0
I had to rearrange their faces 0
And give them all another name 0
Right now I can't read too good 0
Not unless you mail them 0
Between the windows of the sea 0
And fishermen hold flowers 0
Is strapped across their shoulders 0
And then the kerosene 0
Is brought down from the castles 0
By insurance men who go 0
Check to see that nobody is escaping 0
To Desolation Row 0
Praise be to Nero's Neptune 0
The Titanic sails at dawn 0
And everybody's shouting 0
"Which Side Are You On?" 0
Fighting in the captain's tower 0
From Desolation Row0
But all his sexless patients 0
They're painting the passports brown 0
"You Belong to Me I Believe" 0
And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend 0
You better leave" 0
And the only sound that's left 0
After the ambulances go 0
Is Cinderella sweeping up 0
On Desolation Row 0
Now the moon is almost hidden 0
The stars are beginning to hide 0
The fortunetelling lady 0
Has even taken all her things inside 0
All except for Cain and Abel 0
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning 0
And puts her hands in her back pockets 0
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors 0
The circus is in town 0
Here comes the blind commissioner 0
They've got him in a trance 0
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker 0
The other is in his pants 0
And the riot squad they're restless 0
They need somewhere to go 0
As Lady and I look out tonight 0
From Desolation Row 0
Cinderella, she seems so easy 0
"It takes one to know one," she smiles 0
Everybody is making love 0
Or else expecting rain 0
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing 0
With his memories in a trunk 0
Passed this way an hour ago 0
With his friend, a jealous monk 0
He looked so immaculately frightful 0
As he bummed a cigarette 0
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes 0
And reciting the alphabet 0
Now you would not think to look at him 0
But he was famous long ago 0
For playing the electric violin 0
On Desolation Row 0
Noah's great rainbow 0
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood 0
Into Desolation Row 0
He's getting ready for the show 0
He's going to the carnival tonight 0
On Desolation Row 0
Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window 0
For her I feel so afraid 0
On her twenty-second birthday 0
She already is an old maid 0
She wears an iron vest 0
Her profession's her religion 0
Her sin is her lifelessness 0
And though her eyes are fixed upon 0
She spends her time peeking 0
Inside of a leather cup 0


ian, Thursday, 6 March 2008 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

and ezra pound & t.s. eliot

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 March 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

or "expecting rain"

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 March 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

Almost did Ezra Pound or "captains tower" but picked doorknob instead because (unlike "brown") the neat image in the sentence isn't even the rhyming word.

Eazy, Thursday, 6 March 2008 21:34 (seventeen years ago)

She's in charge of the cyanide hole
or
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world

ian, Thursday, 6 March 2008 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest

ian, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Friday, 14 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Saturday, 15 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

What the HELL is this song about?

Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 15 March 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

^^ Tipsy Mothra to thread

rogermexico., Saturday, 15 March 2008 08:39 (seventeen years ago)


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