By Any Other Name
You say you’re bamboozled by the strikes and thrusts
of life run amok?
You say your life’s become a hot-wired mish-mosh
of this and that and all what sucks?
You say hell and high water have hit the fan
and you’re up to here with your head in the sand?
Well, I say, pull it out!
Pull your head outta’ the sand.
Pull your thumb outta’ your mouth.
A nightmare, you say?
Havoc laying claim?
Plead nolo contendere -
You suffer anyway?
Wanna’ trade nightmares?
(I’ll see your nightmare and
raise you mine!)
Oh, hell! We’re not so rare.
There’s them what’s worse.
Some ridin’ a hearse.
Nightmares are hell
Oh well. Oh well.
Let’s ditch this pit.
Ya’ must admit
Life’s plays its drum
Fun to Loathsome
Nightmare by any other name…
A bucking bronco
Fuckin’ shocko
Let’s ride that sucka
Til a new day dawns
and we ride anotha!
By Fran Pearce
From: United States