RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS
Rules
The rules of economy
The rules of civility
That guide our morality
And inform common decency
Broken and scattered
Pummeled and shattered
Like particles imploded
Nothing lasts forever
To change we are devoted
The laws of gravity
The laws of motion
Suspended with revulsion
The real beneath reality
We haven’t got a notion
The rules of writing
The rules of grammar
Smashed to pieces
With a two-ton hammer
What’s young is old
What’s old is new
Yesterday’s false
Is sometimes true
The children have abandoned school
Their teachers are a band of fools
They don’t need no goddamned rules
They have their own survival tools
And so it is for old folks
Our truth becomes their joke
Accept it and then move on
We’re here and then we’re gone
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