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The vamps and sweet coquettes
Who staff the vacant dream-lot
That no young man forgets
Like early cigarettes
A proto-girl-group groupie
No shame and no regrets
I drifted out of childhood
As lonely as it gets
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Their names go by like stations
The Bangles and Belle Stars
They take their relay baton
And harmonies from Mars
Straight from the Shangri-Las
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But slightly out of reach
The business knows the market
And flings them in the breach
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