This Mai Tai Would Taste Better if I Had a Mouth (with thanks to Bill Griffith)
Show me you love me
From way up above me;
Drop your care
From up in the air.
Pictures can't talk;
They can only let us see
In our history.
I spilled a drink on your picture
And it looked like your jaw went south--
"This mai tai would sure taste better
Well, HERE COMES LOVE! courtesy
Of our friend Gravity;
Such is love's firestorming--
Dropped in earnest, without a warning.
Pictures repeat
On TV or in my hand--
About oil and sand.
The eyes start fading
After two or three mai tai's,
This world would look much better
This world would look much better if I had no eyes.
My vision starts fading after two or three mai tai's,
This world would look much better if I had no eyes;
This world would look much better if I had no eyes;
And no CNN--
It's a world without eyes;
It's a world without eyes;
With no eyes.
With no eyes.
It's a world without eyes.
© Alan Reade, 2011
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