You never knew your stooges, did you? Never paid your dues Never brayed your lone wolf howl Never even knew which moon to send it to Sharp of razor not felt As it cuts meat Drawing no blood You should have got to know them Stooges have a lot to teach When they wield the blade To cut meat The flesh is severed And the lesson learned You really should have listened to them For now the time has come When the blood becomes vital The razor selfish, thirsty enough on it's own All those little pithy ideas that run amok in your brainstormed heart They do you no good They cut no meat The twinkling stars and light bulbs bursting in your imagination As a new idea is born only to be cast into the furnace Given up on, no chance A dud Third trimester abortion Tapped it's head just as it poked it's way through the door No need for another one Defective products It only wears you down ******* on the memory of the last one That proved to be worth a **** Born 25 years ago, already on it's death bed But your's Straight from your soul Arranged on a plate with a charming garnish of parsley Soul food from the ghetto Where hungry mouths don't get fed You'd think they would devour your gift As their hunger burns But rather to learn how to steal But rather to learn how to fight Than a single disgusting taste Of anything you have to offer From a mind Soft and cushioned Spoiled and molding Too weak to ever understand what it means To survive Barely able to get by, this is what it's worth All it's worth, and no more Something you might have known Had you learned something from stooges How to cut meat