Death Is the Enemy and Your Mother Is Runner's Up

Don't see Susie Lake no more Since she quit her job at the party store

Today, I’m going to take some black ink And a razor

Cut you out of my history book

Replace your portrait with an angel Flying low in the shadows of tomorrow

She told me the best things in life are free As we hitchhiked alongside the 103

While the chicken extinguished the burning food blender A cowboy with a cleft pallet.

And a cauliflower for a left ear

Explained his feelings to his boots

You see, he said softly, Your love for me Has helped me see things inside myself that T’ve never seen before....

Things like.., said the boots

The cowboy considered

My intestines he said

Mmm-hmm, came the rejoinder

And my trachea, said the cowboy

Yesssss, said the boots

And my spleen, he concluded. Never seen a spleen before...

And sorrow was her baby