She pulls out a box of CD's;
says name your poison.
Cobalt-60 will do.
Bare Naked Ladies will be
the band du jour.
I lie on the slab
in the radiation lab...
*yes i'm...lying in bed...
like brian wilson diiiid....*
I'm wearing my spandex jacket
(where's Donald Fagan
when you need him?).
As LeAnn wraps the
velcro-ed elastic band
around me to bind my arms,
I mention that I miss
the good old days
of canvas
and leather straps.
*i'm so sane
it's driving me crazy....*
Time stops
I'm motionless
engage mind wander
*it's so dangerous
you have to sign a waiver...*
embossed positive
and negative
on the massive metal arm
the pluses and minuses
of shooting a carcinogen
at a spot of death
to save my life
*if there's someone you can live without...
then do so....*
Jun 8, 2016
Jun 8, 2016 at 5:01 PM UTC
She pulls out a box of CD's;
says name your poison.
Cobalt-60 will do.
Bare Naked Ladies will be
the band du jour.
I lie on the slab
in the radiation lab...
*yes i'm...lying in bed...
like brian wilson diiiid....*
I'm wearing my spandex jacket
(where's Donald Fagan
when you need him?).
As LeAnn wraps the
velcro-ed elastic band
around me to bind my arms,
I mention that I miss
the good old days
of canvas
and leather straps.
*i'm so sane
it's driving me crazy....*
Time stops
I'm motionless
engage mind wander
*it's so dangerous
you have to sign a waiver...*
embossed positive
and negative
on the massive metal arm
the pluses and minuses
of shooting a carcinogen
at a spot of death
to save my life
*if there's someone you can live without...
then do so....*
Italicized words are lyrics from Bare Naked Ladies songs (except for du jour...that's French, Tish...)
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