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The bluffer's guide

 
 
If you start the day with a bike
You’ve wasted the morning
 
If you start lunch with a radio
You’ve wasted the batteries
 
If you start swimming the foveaux strait
You’ve wasted your breath
 
If you start the news with a bomb
You’ve wasted pedestrians
 
If you start your breakfast with a happy meal
You’ve wasted your stomach
 
If you drink coke
You’ve wasted plastic
 
If you start a hive
You’re wasting a queen
 
If you’ve started drinking
You’ve wasted your anger
 
If you’ve started eating dinner on your lap
You’ve wasted your table
 
If you’ve started blow vac on the leaves
You’ve wasted your sweeping
 
If you’ve started eating & texting
You’ve wasted your food & thumb
 
If you’ve started a subscription
You’ve wasted postage
 
If you’ve started your car
You’ve wasted your clutch
 
If you’ve started pilates
You’ve wasted a mat & a hall
 
If you’ve opened your mouth
You’ve wasted your spit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Last updated 10 May, 2006