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I want a museum of my Broadway roles -
With peacock-tail rugs, a red velvet swing:
In every room you’ll hear “Song of the Flame,”
And high entrance fees for whoever goes.

The galleries are elegantly furnished:
There’s leadlight and Tiffany glass;
Guided tours and gilded artifacts
There are Victor Herbert’s vases,
And postcards from Jerome Kern.
Ethel Merman’s ashes in a marble urn.

A dark-haired soprano beauty,
I was considered rightly.
The gods were near in the 1890s.
By the Twenties, they outgrew me.

But there’s mink and marabou from Gershwin -
And one little drink and then I’m alluring.

The galleries are elegantly furnished:
There’s leadlight and Tiffany glass;
Guided tours and gilded artifacts
There are Victor Herbert’s vases,
And postcards from Jerome Kern.
Ethel Merman’s ashes in a marble urn.

Anchorhold Music/Girl Ratso ©2014

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from Total Rest of the Intellect (demos), released November 17, 2015

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David Safran is a writer, musician, and producer.. A noted figure in Chicago's music scene, Safran has attracted acclaim for his "boundary-breaking tunes" (WNUR) and dark, provocative lyrics "spike[d]...with humor" (The Chicago Reader).

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