to a drummer

 

so whatcha gonna do when you go to the zoo

uncle up the ante with the dippity do

keep a log kick a dog pack a pistol Pete

icon the bike on a tricky retreat

of mice of men of rats of stoats of

kith and of kin of Holland of votes

assisting a brother in burning a boat

 

i-don't-want to love when I can't have

i-don't-want to have when I can't love

 

negatory nightshade hunky dory day

even in the twilight the color of grey

seems duller than a dishrag dumber than a post

(Officer Windbag is warmer than toast)

kind or callous tried or true

all that you are is all that you do as

you seem as you dream as you deem as you do

 

i-don't-want to feel what I can't know

i-don't-want to know what I can't feel

 

(keep repeating until it's all blabbedy blab

and then stick in a guitar solo)

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Berkeley, California

October 1989

 

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