I sat on the kerb with Herb, or if you are from the US, you might call it the curb, but me being from Brooklyn I spell it as curb, but pronounce it as kerb. We watched as the lot across the street started burning and we were appalled that someone had started this fire in our neighborhood. When the police came, Herb started singing, “We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning.” It did not take much of an impulse to trigger Herb into putting on a performance, as he was always willing to take the leap and accommodate a crowd of people, ever since he was the lead Munchkin in a play about the wizard of Oz.

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