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
        One frozen moment
      In our history.
      I spilled a drink on your picture
      And it looked like your jaw went south--
        Like you said,
      "This mai tai would sure taste better
        If I had a mouth."

      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--
        Some miniseries
      About oil and sand.
      The eyes start fading
      After two or three mai tai's,
        But you know,
      This world would look much better
        If I had no eyes;
      This world would look much better if I had no eyes.

      My vision starts fading after two or three mai tai's,
        But you know,
      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--
        I'll say it again:
      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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