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Over the Pulaski Skyway

Down through the tunnel of love

A school bus in day glow colors

Filled with bygone hippie stuff

Don’t laugh, your daughter might be inside

The officer laughs anyway

Don’t ask, don’t tell, it is just as well

You’re heading for the Halloween parade

Here between the police barricades

They won’t stop the Halloween parade

They won’t paint the line green, the mayor isn’t here

There won’t be any cuts in aid

There won’t be no military fanfare

But it has the blessings of several popes

Jesus carrying his own damn cross

Or carrying just enough rope

Here on the Avenue of the Americas

Larger than life, behind makeup and mask

Everything America is afraid of

Is lost in a ritualized hell

All so the children won’t ask

All so we won’t have to tell

It’s the yearly meeting of the never-minds

The artists and actors and clowns

On this night and this night only

It is the only show in town

We’re all of your worst nightmares

We’re all of your wildest dreams

The pagans and gays the specter of aids

In a riot of color and screams

It’s the morning after the night before

Hanging with the leftover leaves

Deflated balloons and streamers

In the thin arms of the dying trees

There is an awkward silence

As awkward couples come and go

Looking sadly at this boulevard

Wondering if and when they’ll know

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