V1 — Paper For The Bum Bum
they enforce agoraphobic tendencies — ( i guess )
covid is the enemy from oakland to rome, in italy
and if you roam in liberty ( stress )
be sure to keep a healthy social dissstance
six or seven feet
apart — yo, be smart ‘fore you
TP a rival’s driveway
consider twenty-twenty (2020)
daily living it went siiiiiideways
a single square of tissue
over here’s an issue — customers
will tear you in two
crumple you & then dismiss you
cloak it — toilet paper roll is gold
no, we don’t shit you
salty folks will twist you
into rold gold pretzels
for TP, 2-ply
you might see black & blue eye
pioneer a tipi tent, a leafy vent
then güd bye
Refrain
is this the apocalypsssse ?
quick — everyone run insiiide
everybody is a walking germ
don’t let pestilence come insiiide
paradise is paranoid
hoard — collect — now hiiide
‘outbreak’ & ‘contagion’ — scary movies
that lurk outsiiide
V2 — Power Up Immunoglobulins
ante up the antibodies
is anybody
in this lobby listening ? ’cause auntie em
is acting wobbbbly
no need to masssk it
that’s just a bandage
the older say the younger under spell:
they take for grannnnted
not one life — but neun ! — (9)
they don’t wear n
ninety-fiiive, or hunnnndred
these cats gotta a hunch
’cause oval offffice hunnnchback
spouting out his mouth
sporting stupid dunnnce cap
his face a shriveled orange
please punch, that
power up immunoglobulins
do the dew
destroy the goblins
fight ‘em tooth & nail
horse & dogsss win
germs won’t
gotta cast that firm vote
otherwise we’re stuck on the dark siide
of the brain, sunburn mode
infinity inferno over exposure
hold yer composure
yell, hell nahhh:
that’s a bunch o’ bull, dozer !
16 MAR 2020 | Copyright © B. Yee
Lyrics from the album, APART_MENT, 2021, by Gene Wilderness