Role of a Lifetime

      Proliferate your haunts til they start
      their own system
      Double the bludgeon of your tom-tom, bi-god!
      Be an Indian that skins 'em
5     or an old maid that shuns'em
      But don't give up your director's chair
      or maybe producing a soap opera
      For whimsey's the thing
      that'll make a creep a king
10    and no one can wear your crown for you
      So be a Thor among whores, if you can
      and minx it with the scruffy ruffians with elan
      and be tough in your thinnest chiffon
      because before you know it you'll be gone
15    just one more clod among "clouds" clods
      earth-clad and crimson
      your death is a cinch son
      so before you go out
      turn gay or devout
20    play both the wolf and the fawn.
      Jeffery Moller and Gregg Glory

 

From the collection "Miscellany"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.