Hammer Mill Days

Did you look in the silo? Okay. How about the forge room? No? Then take a look, for crying out loud. Not a moment to spare. Well, I am proud of myself. It took all weekend, but I pulled together an exhaustive list of all of the songs Big Green has ever written, from our very first days to the present. Yes, I left out the future, but two out of three isn't bad. Besides, predicting the future is hard . Don't know if you noticed. That's why we leave it to people like Kreskin ... and Criswell. (You remember Criswell, right? Criswell predicts!) Trouble is (and there is always trouble here at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill) Now that I've completed the list, I ... well ... can't find it. I would describe it to you, but you probably won't find it either ... unless you have a gift of prophecy, again, like Criswell. Well, I don't have a mentalist here at the mill. Though it's fair to say that most of our entourage are mental, in the colloquial sense. My onl...

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