The last known whereabouts of amelia earhart
Come on come on honey I memorized the train schedule
Every hour on the hour from dusk till dawn
Northbound, southbound
Come on come on honey the streets are paved in nothing
The tar in your boot-soles is all you’re standing on
Facing outbound
Between you and me, the city is a buffer
When the deadlines are tough the lifelines get tougher
But I’ve had enough; we were not born to suffer
Come on come on, come on come on
I hear the east come rhapsodize
I hear the west join the fray
I hear the east come rhapsodize and lead you away.
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Come on come on honey I memorized the birth order
Of every man and woman and infant yet
Every sir and madam
Come on come on I know the line is unstable
From Cain and Abel to the godparents of regret
Named Eve and Adam
The cream of the crop, the dregs of the barrel
I’ve read all the drivel, I’ve worn the apparel
I’ve seen them be civil, I’ve seen them be feral
Come on come on, come on come on
I hear the word come rhapsodize
I hear the world come & ask me to play
I hear the word come rhapsodize and lead you away
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Come on come on honey I memorized the migration patterns
Of every seabeast and landbeast of the realm
All the courting and mating
Come on come on I hear the water table’s rising
My love is an ark but it’s dark and I’m alone at the helm
Honey it’s devastating
The storm was a mess, a forty-day bender
They divide us by dress, class, phylum and gender
Why can’t I be blessed, why can’t you be tender
Come on come on, come on come on
I hear the sea come rhapsodize
I hear the waves hammer the bay
I hear the sea come rhapsodize and lead you away
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Come on come on honey I memorized the book of Revelations
So if it ever happens we can hide inside the right monument
Someplace as dry as Petra
Come on come on I’ve got flotation devices
If it’s really a crisis, I think we’re allowed to repent
Et cetera, et cetera
But I’d rather locate a natural bunker
My animal instinct tells me it’s time to hunker
You be the cavern, I’ll be the spelunker
Come on come on, come on come on
I hear the hills come rhapsodize
I hear the valleys demand that I stay
I hear the hills come rhapsodize and lead you away
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Come on come on honey I memorized the last known whereabouts
Of Amelia Earhart and unicorns and Atlantis and Christ
And Dillinger’s surrender
Come on come on there’s a Broadway adaptation
Everyone’s a sellout but everyone’s affordably priced
At your local vendor
We are not outlaws, we’re peripatetics;
It isn’t a sickness, I don’t need your medics
I don’t know what justice has to do with poetics
Come on come on, come on come on
I hear the news come rhapsodize
I hear the pulp parade and decay
I hear the news come sermonize and lead you away
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Come on come on honey I memorized the complete works of beloved New
England poet and former US poet laureate Robert Frost
All of his trochees and iambs
Come on come on I know his life was a train wreck
He was a fratboy and a dropout
But he knows what to do when you’re lost
And that’s just what I am
There’s no silver bullet, no clairvoyant crystal
It’s life by the compass or death by the pistol
But if you find the high road, send an epistle
Come on come on, come on come on
I hear the east come rhapsodize
I hear the west join the fray
I hear the east come rhapsodize and lead you away