66 The Hidden Basement
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In a big brick house on Main Street,
In a house a century old,
In a house with walls so thick,
Even in the summer it was cold.
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Our house was there in Vevay,
One of many of that kind,
Made of red brick and mortar,
But some were painted over time.
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The second floor was a mystery,
As I thought I heard a cough,
But it couldn’t be from the second floor,
Because that floor was closed off.
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Turns out there was also an apartment,
On the western side,
The apartment did had two stories,
But it wasn’t very wide.
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But the biggest mystery was the basement,
Where the furnace and water heater were,
It had a hidden entrance,
Not a place for an amateur.
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The entrance was in the back,
In a corner and under a bed and rug,
And the lid would hardly move at all,
When you gave the handle a tug.
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I’ll admit now I did not enter,
This dark foreboding hole,
I should have gotten the throphy for pretending,
That just looking in was my only goal.