On this daylight evening
let's build something absurd
a plank of fog

 peg leg mast
skull cannonball 
a feeble Galleon sinking

we'll shoot it past the moon

shine on darkly
through the past

darkly

oh morning star

of ineptness
orbiting a vagrant path
lost ship of fools

sixteen eccentric toreadors
prancing on a dead man's chest
day of the dead rising
 one trick pony with fallen rider
leads the procession stumblebum

take your mask

your gesture of stupidity
put on by a fleet of barflies

the boozehounds

silently howling
defeated by nature and circumstance
a fiesta with lethal injection
its silver armor smashed

by rocks and wind

the sirens sweetly sing

Oh Titanic,

Oh XX Valdez,
Oh Challenger,

etc., etc.,
Vanity Oh Vanity

how the mighty have fallen

see how they run amok

 

 

-SB 2007