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‘I’row up I see it all around I see children in every house Look there, that’s Leonora’s house, poor woman And here’s where those two old maids live, and their Green Machine Children, children without love And over there, take a look There’s the ravine The Lonely One There’s a life for you, there’s a child in a man’s body That’s the ticket You could iven tiy Don’t force people to grow Baby therow their private poison gardens Little patches of hate and prejudice If you wanted them unhappy, how norance, I’m for you! Doith the slob and the swine forever!”’

‘Don’t rub it in I don’t hate thee afternoon, how odd There I was, in his face There I was, in love with the girl It was as if tiain’

‘It’s still possible, of course, you can reverse the process The child is in us all It’s not hard to keep the child locked there forever Give it another try’

‘No, I’o If they can earn a better life than I did, let them earn it I wouldn’t be so cruel as to wish them my life noas in his face, remember, and I saw her God, what a beautiful face! Suddenly I felt so young Now, turn me around and roll me home I want to think about the next year or so I’ll have to start figuring’

‘Yes, Ebenezer’

‘No, not Ebenezer, not Scrooge I’ You can’t be anything that quickly All I know is I’ure what I want to be’

‘You could give to charity’

‘You know me better than that’

‘You’ve got a brother’

‘Lives in California’

‘How long’s it been since you’ve seen him?’

‘Oh, God, thirty years’

‘He has children, right?’

‘Yes, I think so Two girls and a boy Gro Got children of their own’