| original draft CLAQUE (obsolete) |
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Like bumps on rails of railroad tracks; | 1 |
as if on cue from conductor Jack | 2 |
The audience-shills slapped their palms. | 3 |
clap clap clap clap clap clap clap | 4 |
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"Oh, you peanut gallery! | 5 |
You rabbling crows | 6 |
your free ride paid! So clap! | 7 |
Don't only honk your noses!" | 8 |
Demanded he before show time; | 9 |
Johnathan Wimpole Walrus Back, | 10 |
conductor of the Knightsbridge Line | 11 |
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A cliquish-claque of feigns-non-fairs | 12 |
hollowly rides his clap-trap aires | 13 |
Two shillings to stay and all that one way | 14 |
Hear bad music? Applaud "His Backness" anyway | 15 |
clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! | 16 |
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Turning he bows toward his claque-rail-lions; | 17 |
those callows dumping faked huzzahs | 18 |
Giving real payers shrinking pause | 19 |
CLAQUEDY CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP | 20 |
"Really, was it so much all that?" | 21 |
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This conductor now turns and bows | 22 |
and runs toward curtains to avoid your roused | 23 |
tempers after this dupey tour | 24 |
upon a de-railed vaudeville railing | 25 |
from the Knightsbridge Lie... urr ... | 26 |
_Knightsbridge Limelight Line_ | 27 |
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