Risky Business

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Thoreau

with the music cranking

my chain i thought she was yanking

when as she was heading out the door

she yelled back and reminded me to clean the house

i really did dust and straighten things out

along with a little vacuumed guitar made of air

i swear

fair is fair

like tom cruise

in my underwear

Author's Note

"Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn." - Thoreau