The Ramones Are Dead: An Ode

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The Ramones Are Dead

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Long after the last riff fades,
And the amps are turned down low.
When jockeys the last cut play,
They report what all now know:
The Ramones are dead.

Four bruddahs who rode the bus,
From Queens to Copenhagen.
Four who fell before their time,
But that’s the punk rock bargain:
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