December 5th, 2021
The world is wrong today
An Uber driver speaks of his wealth
When he’s just one small step
From the corner bums and their filth
Fortunes lost or never found
Spare change in their cups
That jingling sound
My fortune cookie wants to teach me Chinese
Kàn Bìng it says
“To see a doctor”
And I’m down, I’ll tell ya
It’s a day for downers
I’m sobbing over Cohen’s Hallelujah
Because it’s instrumental
But I don’t need no fuckin’ healer
I’m not mental
Long ago I was a puppet
Then I cut the strings to stop it
And I’m free now
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
But it still is, god!
Dammit she’s stuck like a barnacle
Jammed in a pickle
Wrapped by a tentacle
One monkey on our back
And missing one in the middle
Bitch cast a wide net
But the puppet has gone
Because the marionette was wrong