Nursery Rhymes
wonder why
violets are blue
why Valentine roses
are always red
why I can’t find
those little white bells
nowhere
like looking for those little blue smurfs
or trolls under the bridge
and I forget what I wanted
back in ’91
by ’93 I was standing in a showroom
full of shiny boxes picking one
to put in a hole
wondering how I got there
when life takes a turn
you always ask yourself … how’d I get here
time moves
and it don’t
aging is a process
that you can never process
why’d the spider go up the waterspout
in the first place
didn’t it sense the danger
or was it seeking shelter
what a song to sing
to itsy bitsy kids
like an old man
in the rain
forgetting which house is his
or the old woman who lived in a shoe
what an imagination
like a cow jumping over the moon
and the fork running away with the spoon
if you live long
enough
you end up
following the breadcrumbs
down the yellow brick road
back to the beginning
up the vine
and into the clouds
TL