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Pusher

"I just sat on my right nut and I'm in pain"
I feel like I ought to let someone know,
but the woman sitting next to me
she won't care, or perhaps she'll care too much
and the fate of my nut,
oh such a terrible fate,
would send her careening off
on a guilt ridden mental trip
and perhaps she'll get off at the next stop
teary-eyed she'll wander to the edge of the track
nobody will ever truly know whether she fell or jumped
but all who watched will tell their friends, hush hush to be sure, 
that she had tears in her eyes 
and she gave a little push off the ground right before the end came
i sit quietly in my pain, and I think she looks suicidal anyway, 
silently I say "Go for it Lady."