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There once was a lim'rick named Sid
who fell off his bike when a kid
the infection grew worse
and death was too cruel to be instantaneous
his mother tried to get him to drink milk
but it made his mouth taste of boiled eggs
but he died while reading
The Amazing Spider-Man
he'd finished the issue,
but all comics are series
so it was tragic in its way
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this song was playing and playing
at the store where I was shopping
what the hell's the NAME of it?!
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my cat made clumps in her box
this was before the scoopable kind
yet it came out whole when i picked it up
no wonder she always looked so proud
tail in the sunlight; ahead of her time
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I waited for my honey for about 42 hours
I knew she wasn't going to show
She'd been dead too many years
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word processors and 800 numbers
i draw you a bath, you ask me to leave
before stepping in, phone on your face,
we converse once you're under the bubble blanket
the kids, bills, corporate ladder rungs, films never time for
plugging in, my laptop makes a weird sound, i ask
you to repeat and i look at you. see the tile of the wall
behind you. i throw in a science fiction question,
just to test, you introvert yourself, laptop leaps
off the corner of the sink. you sizzle and shake
and the perm comes natural for a change
and i thank Atheist for the information age
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a red indian followed me
all the way home from school
mom was worried. made him
wipe his skins before coming in
she showed him her checkbook
and dad said I should take him
into my room to look at the
Duran Duran posters, but I cried
after a little while, running out,
whispering to mom
what I'd been asked to do
she told dad out loud and he
smiled a condescending face,
taking me back to my room
said "have your way" to him
tried to fumble with my pants
I protested, dad said, "son,
we owe these people so much"