"I got a telephone call from Istanbul
My baby's coming home today
Sell me [a rose] if I shave my head
Get me out of town is what Fireball said
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're [DD]”
(Tom Waits,
who again is ultra compatible with Joni Mitchell)
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https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill
And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand” (Ferron)