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i. THE ARRIVAL
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Rael:
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I wandered lonely as a cloud,
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Till I came upon this dirty street.
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I've never seen a stranger crowd;
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Slubberdegullions on squeaky feet,
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Continually pacing,
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With nonchalant embracing,
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Each orifice disgracing
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And one facing me moves to say "hellay".
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His skin's all covered in slimy lumps.
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With lips that slide across each chin.
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His twisted limbs like rubber stumps
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Are waved in welcome say 'Please join in.'
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My grip must be flipping,
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Cos his handshake keeps slipping,
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My hopes keep on dipping
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And his lips keep on smiling all the time.
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Slipperman:
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"We, like you, have tasted love.
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Don't be alarmed at what you see,
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You yourself are just the same
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As what you see in me."
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Rael:
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Me, like you? like that!
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Slipperman:
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"You better watch it son, your sentence has only just begun
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You better run and join your brother John."
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ii. A VISIT TO THE DOKTOR
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Slipperman:
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"You're in the colony of slippermen.
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There's no who? why? what? or when?
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You get out if you've got the gripe
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To see, Doktor Dyper, reformed sniper - he'll whip off your windscreenwiper"
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Rael:
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John and I are able
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To face the Doktor and his marble table.
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The Doktor:
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Understand Rael, that's the end of your tail.
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Rael:
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"Don't delay, dock the dick!"
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I watch his countdown timer tick....
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iii. THE RAVEN
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He places the number into a tube,
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It's a yellow plastic "shoobedoobe".
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It says: "Though your fingers may tickle
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You'll be safe in our pickle."
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Suddenly, black cloud come down from the sky.
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It's a supersized black bird that sure can fly...
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The raven brings on darkness and night
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He flies right down, gives me one hell of a fright.
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He take the tube right out of my hands
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Man, I've got to find out where that black bird lands.
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"Look here John, I've got to run
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I need you now, you going to come?"
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He says to me:
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John:
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"Now can't you see
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Where the raven flies there's jeopardy.
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We've been cured on the couch
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Now you're sick with your grouch.
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I'll not risk my honey pouch
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Which my slouch will wear slung very low."
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Rael:
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He walks away and leaves me once again.
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Even though I never learn,
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I'd hoped he'd show just some concern.
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I'm in the agony of Slipperpain
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I pray my undercarriage will sustain.
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The chase is on, the pace is hot
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But I'm running so very hard with everything that I've got.
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He leads me down an underpass
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Though it narrows, he still flies very fast,
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When the tunnel stops
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Catch sight of the tube, just as it drops.
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I'm on top of a bank too steep to climb
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I see it hit the water just in time
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to watch it float away...
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THE COLONY OF SLIPPERMEN:
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| Genesis |
