Monday, October 4, 2021

big fat quotation mark.

"The comedy of man starts like this / Our brains are way too big for our mothers' hips / And so Nature, she divines this alternative / We emerged half-formed and hope that whoever greets us on the other end / Is kind enough to fill us in / And, babies, that's pretty much how it's been ever since / Now the miracle of birth leaves a few issues to address / Like, say, that half of us are periodically iron deficient / So somebody's got to go kill something while I look after the kids / I'd do it myself, but what, are you going to get this thing its milk? / He says as soon as he gets back from the hunt, we can switch / It's hard not to fall in love with something so helpless / Ladies, I hope we don't end up regretting this / Comedy, now that's what I call pure comedy / Just waiting until the part where they start to believe / They're at the center of everything / And some all powerful being endowed this horror show with meaning / Oh, their religions are the best / They worship themselves yet they're totally obsessed / With risen zombies, celestial virgins, magic tricks, these unbelievable outfits / And they get terribly upset / When you question their sacred texts / Written by woman-hating epileptics / Their languages just serve to confuse them / Their confusion somehow makes them more sure / They build fortunes poisoning their offspring / And hand out prizes when someone patents the cure / Where did they find these goons they elected to rule them? / What makes these clowns they idolize so remarkable? / These mammals are hell-bent on fashioning new gods / So they can go on being godless animals / Oh comedy, their illusions they have no choice but to believe / Their horizons that just forever recede / And how's this for irony, their idea of being free is a prison of beliefs / That they never ever have to leave / Oh comedy, oh it's like something that a madman would conceive! / The only thing that seems to make them feel alive is the struggle to survive / But the only thing that they request is something to numb the pain with / Until there's nothing human left / Just random matter suspended in the dark / I hate to say it, but each other's all we got"