Alley Loo Ya Chorus

Prologue

i laurie fond old man
eking allotment of sand in hourglass
reminded of surplus
how soon permission for astonishment
diminishes
search for foot-on-neck remedy

big z wunderful
infra dig z mean
big z little hierarchy
writ large on silhouette screen

when bottom line
reads in red
"bottoms spanked"
arent further bottoms
with common weals striped?

peckin order scores big
among mates
who figger to rate higher
on richter scale
attendant fallout from causalties
discounted
by rogues, bullies n ingrates

i fond old man
exchanging baton
meant for play or war
hand down to successor
soldiering on
in fellowship anon

this my prologue
this my witness
written under rubric
of westering sun

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus

or Sane Tongue Worth Thousand Manners

Fickle fingers at point
seeking out Tad
who would stand for Simple Simon yearnings
stoolbound in corner
dunce cap anointed

Tad, we proclaim,
though greater machinations get abroad
over dead bodies
than ABC's abrogated

Oyez Oyez Oyez
Hey man Hey man Hey man
O yeah O yeah Oyeah

Thumbsruck Tad
fundament three o-pinioned
R for rogue
R for rebel
R for refractory

alley will lull y
alley will fool y
alley will school y
sully me none
heads will nod
t'others will roll
hey ho me hardhearties n bullyboyz
alley lullaby 'll rule y!

Tad, one ear bugged by radio hot line wiseacre
whoz tossin stone with malapropos zeal
t'other boxed by Salomez head-on-platter song

let's all sing Salome's song
let's all sing Salome's song
let's all sing Salome's song
sin, gentlefolk, please!

if'n everybodyz victim
all hands turn up clean
whoz to blame?
let's all play hide-n-go-seek-'m-out:
anomalees, if you please … first!
If'n everybodyz victim
then everybody can be predator
But top must be on bottom
bottom must be on top
That's the rules of the game!

babe in manger
idiot on stool
what do they have in common
when one was born to rule?

tother was not meant for throne or parliament
he was taught misbegotten role:
how to play the fool

shapes! we come born in shapes
some shapely, some misshapen
by whose standards?
critical eye! prejudicial I!

exception to rule of order
Tad by election
posted kittycorner to schoolroom
pilloried figure of shun
for pointed sniggers and gibes

here he reigns
anointed with generation's dust
dunce's cone for crown
he shall moan
he shall whimper
he shall not cry uncle
with temper main gauge and helpmeet:
to hot blood and cold circumstance
he shall knuckle down

come! sez alley-loud-yeah prophet
i'll spin you tuppeny dream
i'll box you shadow play
i'll sing you te deum
i'll hymn you alley-loud-yeah anthem
yeah

why does hell befriend fear
yellow delight mucked up by dearie-me
yelp tail-tucked between loins
sliding away from afraidz welcoming charm
resisting abrading miracle
of being washed up with aphroditez foam

furrow ploughed ad lib
greek-fustianed
share rotating determinate earth
oxen stubbing hooves on precursory marbles
writing is writ
informing terra firma

great gas oven sun eyeballs horizon
sugar-coated pasteldrawing job f nemesis
moon twilights earth
deaf eardrum f star
paying dues in peripheral dalliance
circumspect marriage avoiding crunch

touch n go catastrophes happen
plague f hunches leapfrog to armageddon
clearsighted window
gazing out
reminds us of eye f gods
looking on from idle end of telescope

if pleading-dumb philosophers re-script no proverbs
who stands holding oracular telescope
does watchdog science own no mortal provenance
is classical clearsightedness looking-glass
whoz watching whom
must we solipsize with yeahway:
"i am what i am"
and p.s. with popeye:
"that's all that i yam!"?

TO BE CONTINUED...

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