With a throat of brass, the jukebox eats live nickels raw
It can turn itself on or shut itself off
It has no hangovers, knows no regrets, and it never feels the need for sleep
Can you do that ?
What can you do that a jukebox can't, and do it ten times better than you
And it hammers at your nerves, and stabs you in the heart, and beats upon your soul -
but can you do that to the box ?
King Juke
Kenneth Fearing
1943
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