Platitudes On A Snow Day
Platitudes On A Snow Day
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Thursday, January 27,2011 @ 9: 27 AM
Tided am I by your lasso
Once so big now micro
Once so high now so low
Back to the life once lived in the ghetto
Problems small now jumbo
So light now weighs more than a kilo
Never rode in a fancy limo
Never learned to speak the lingo
You now say that I am loco
No longer am I so macho
No longer leading so I fallow
I have now lost my halo
My life has been put on Furlough
Streets wide now narrow
No longer singing the sparrow
Melancholy now and so mellow
Should have learned to dance the mambo
Instead I sat and eat a mango
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