Lay Down and Live

There’s a cheeseball in the candy dish

I’m in freefall through a hail of kitch

But time………     has come

To lay down, lay down, lay down lay down and live

Your poetry is calm and bitter

We keep your chapbook in the shitter

But the rhymes don’t come

So lay down lay down lay down lay down and live

Lay down, lay down, lay down, lay down and live

Ambition wound the clock for us

Set our phasers on mistrust

Then hopped on its Rhinoceros

Iheard you the first time

Sweeping up the starting line

Humming Revolution Number Nine

Or maybe “I Me….Maybe I Me Mine”

Solo over Verse

The sun’s a radiologist

So cross me off of my own list

I’m begging to be out done

And lay down, lay down, lay down lay down and live

Lay down, lay down, lay down, lay down and live

Ambition wound the clock for us

It set our phasers on mistrust

Then hopped on its rhinoceros

I heard you the first time

Demand a total redesign

Humming “ Revolution Number 9”

Or maybe “Cruel to …Maybe Cruel to Be Kind”

So lay down, lay down, lay down lay down and

Lay down, lay down,lay down,  lay down and

Lay down, lay down, lay down,  lay down and live

Lay down, lay down, lay down, lay down and live