No, we shall never live on
Thus, we are not crazy
Posthumously stated
Although, not so lately
Words quoted by those
Who ignore the past
Lines from prose
Which ignore final acts
“It’s bombardment
Contamination
Shallow, impromptu
Callous and sad”
So dismayed
Are the critics
At what they can’t have
Without a spotlight on them
Without a solemn reprisal
They tediously sip coffee
And watch in denial
“It will never work, it just mustn’t”
“It can’t be done, for it wasn’t”
Oh, I’m tired of these children
Their fathers and moms
I’m sick of this museum
Now then, let’s all carry on
Mar 26, 2010
Mar 26, 2010 at 9:43 PM UTC
No, we shall never live on
Thus, we are not crazy
Posthumously stated
Although, not so lately
Words quoted by those
Who ignore the past
Lines from prose
Which ignore final acts
“It’s bombardment
Contamination
Shallow, impromptu
Callous and sad”
So dismayed
Are the critics
At what they can’t have
Without a spotlight on them
Without a solemn reprisal
They tediously sip coffee
And watch in denial
“It will never work, it just mustn’t”
“It can’t be done, for it wasn’t”
Oh, I’m tired of these children
Their fathers and moms
I’m sick of this museum
Now then, let’s all carry on
I have to mention Seal's Crazy as the inspiration/source for the first stanza... there, now I can live with myself.
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