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Syd & Roger There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant Syd was a thunderclap musician, a firestone rocker, A calico leopard in tigers' stripes, A madman crawling around his stage-cage, A granite tipped epidramatic sound god! Syd's pink-purple psychedelic raven haired mane contained a legion of curled locks, Twisting and sneering at authority. His opal eyes, Closed to the world Betrayed nothing But a reflection of the beholder. Tickling his snaggle-toothed guitar and forcing it into curious guffaws And effervescent yelps, His music lined peoples' ...
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