Friday is as far as the week can get away
with not being a holiday
Sunday shall remain, for surfing the tevangelies
& cleaning up semen stains
with every day, those who knew the Spoiler grew in number,
and could not hide their happiness
resistance seemed petty & over-principled.
there we were, at the End of History,
& folks were holding loyal to their troubles & their ignorance.
if this time it's true, that crime-rates tank
when the Beatles play Ed Sullivan,
why aren't you tuned to Ed Sullivan?
if cliché, you concede,
is a System thinking through you,
why this suspicion at our Poetry?
o let us live in Amity OR,
in Concord MA,
in mutual America
a shameless gang we shall be,
riding free, in our Cadillac,
top-down, all sugared up
Friday is as far as work can get away
with not being a holiday
Sunday'll be free for Italia TV,
& sleeping off Saturday
Monday was a line up
Tuesday was a line of Equity policy
but Friday you could drive,
and love the other driver and
love would weave apologies
i refer to work in the sense of Thermodynamics:
that by which we keep things together, but
F you, Structure.
all of our work was performed under protest:
a prodigy Sun hung hot and too long, the Morning of life relentless.
but our labors hid our training [i refer to The Karate Kid];
our training, a campaigning [ i refer to Ender's Game];
and all played on a Kingdom stage [said the Shakespeare Chorus]
credits
from alter egos,
released August 11, 2020
arranged & produced by Geoff Pye
guitar: Julien Beillard
all other instruments by Geoff Pye
vox: Paul Bali & Kiran Bali
lyrics by Paul Bali, from & for the Creative Commons
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