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RIGHT NOW by DOUGLAS MALLOCH

First Line: SOME OTHER TIME PERHAPS YOU CAN,'
Last Line: OF SOMETHING I COULD DO RIGHT NOW.

"Some other time perhaps you can,"
They always say. The picture show,
A horseback ride, a doll, a fan,
Or any place you want to go,
Our parents always seem to say
Perhaps we can some other day.

They never tell you that you can't --
It's just "not now." Whatever thing
It is you see, it is you want,
They never say right out, biff-bing,
You can't, when on their knees you climb;
Perhaps you can "some other time."

I wish that I could think of just
One thing that I could really do;
But, my, it always seems I must
First pester them a week or two.
I wish that I could think, somehow,
Of something I could do Right Now.



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