The experience of marriage, and of having a kid in school

Nathan Deuel
Last Flight From Beirut
1 min readFeb 14, 2013

Via Randy Newman, actually:

Karl, you never have seen such a glorious sight
as these beautiful women arrayed for the night
just like countesses, empresses, movie stars and
queens
And they'd come there with men much like me
Froggish men, unpleasant to see
Were you to kiss one, Karl
Nary a prince would there be
Oh Karl the world isn't fair
It isn't and never will be
They tried out your plan
It brought misery instead
If you'd seen how they worked it
you'd be glad you were dead
just like I'm glad I'm living in the land of the
free
where the rich just get richer
and the poor you don't ever have to see
It would depress us, Karl
Because we care
that the world still isn't fair

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Nathan Deuel
Last Flight From Beirut

Author of FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB, an Amazon Best Book of the Month. Has written for NYT Mag, Harper’s, GQ, TNR, etc. Teaches writing at UCLA.