Friday, April 22, 2022

Mr. Bossy-Pants Tells Us How to Live - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Mr. Bossy-Pants Tells Us How to Live

 

“I’m an idea man, Chuck; I get ideas....”

 

-Michael Keaton as Bill in Night Shift

 

He never planted a garden or mowed a lawn

There are no trees near his apartment house

His household garbage goes straight to the curb

In unrecycled thick black plastic bags

 

He sees his SUV as only his due

But wants bicycles for the rest of us

And keeps his air-conditioning comfy-cool

He flies first class to teach us clean-air truths

 

He makes a bludgeon of the term “organic”

And profits thus from others’ moral panic

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