MANICOMIO
(dedicated this to my CD’s producer,
Harvey Kubernik – 1998)
In the maximum security
prison of the mind,
break-out!
wayward words escape
past the razor-wire
of conformity.
Pandemonium!
Sálvese quien pueda!
four-letter words,
freshly-minted words,
opposite-meaning words,
rap & roll words.
The Adverb Patrol declares
a grammatical emergency.
“We’re being overrun
by renegade words…
set your phasers on ‘erase’,
fire when you see their vowels!”