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The Band on Bubba's Badge
For Carroll O'Connor

Been wearing this too much lately.
It seems like there's no end to funerals
in Sparta -- Virgil, and Lonnie, now the Chief.
Yeah, still call him that, forget sometimes.
Never quite got used to "Sheriff Gillespie."

Hm? What's it say? Well, it says,
"Nemo Me Impune Lacessit." That means,
"No One May Strike Me With Impunity."
Course, it makes a bit more sense,
wearing this, when the guy you're burying
got cut down on a traffic stop or something.
Not when a guy just gets old. Not when he just
keels over one day with a heart attack.

Who we supposed to arrest, Chief?
Seems to me, you got struck with impunity...
 

I Think
For Douglas Adams

You ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,
Unworthy to speak, a pen run out of ink,
Losing words that fit the feeling best.

It seems so odd, that cardiac arrest
Three states away could cause my heart to sink.
You ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

First reading in the store, I grew obsessed
(As will an outcast boy, feeling out of sync,
Losing words that fit the feeling best) --

And just as I sought answers, you ventured to suggest
That the Answer and the Question might just interlink.
(You ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.)

Through your fierce jeers and all your gentle jest,
I started to get the Joke. I'll miss your wink,
Losing words that fit the feeling best.

But you always did write endings too compressed,
And now you've gone and done it again. I think
You ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,
Losing words that fit the feeling best.
 


Incoming!

Summer is a-coming in, way too fast,
engulfed in flames, trailing smoke,
too wrecked to leave for 6 months.

Winter sent a postcard from New York —
wished I was there. Spring just popped by;
it likes to visit Texas, but refuses to stay.

It's niiiiiinety again, sings Supertramp
in my overheated brain, wishing for a job
that let me wake to morning coolness

instead of afternoon trudging to my
very own personal solar driver heater
(just 60 easy payments of $299.99! Call now!).

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