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while I Started a Joke is a song full of motifs and metaphors, but in essence, is about a persona who has said or done something wrong, maybe even on a grander scale for the world to see- resulting in alienation, or some even sympathy, as he tries to cover up his mistake in saying that whatever that was offensive was actually a jokemaybe just a coping mechanism to not deal with the backlash of whatever was said in the spur of the moment
See Verlaine's Potes Maudits, 1884, and his biography of Villiers in Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui, the series of penny biographies, with caricature portraits, published by Vanier
Although 81.1% reported that their parents/guardians disapproved of e-cigarette use, 4.2% indicated that their friends were supportive
Michael Symons is State House bureau chief for New Jersey 101.5 and the editor of New Jersey: Decoded