Hymn for a New Year (2018)

I wanna vaccine
For 2018

Not an antibiotic
That makes me myopic

I NEED TO CAMP NEAR THE EVEREST

And get a Sherpa
Whose got Omertà

I NEED TO CAMP NEAR THE EVEREST

To feel the blood
Throbing in my Aortà

I NEED TO CAMP NEAR THE EVEREST

To turn a leaf on my wife Bertà

And so when you tweet that I'm being a Tourist

Looking for cheap emotions to
Get my soul nourished

Then take a hike over Wall Street's
Golden Index $$$

And kiss a Genie full of Gimmicks

I NEED TO CAMP NEAR THE EVEREST

Cause I don't wanna step on any more frogs
When my pointed shoes
Would turn their skin blues

Now you're tweeting like a Pharaoh
Typing hieroglyphs at such a pace

That bone comes outta marrow

Tweeting like a Pharaoh
Cause you're jealous of a designer Italian
Frigorifero

Now it's 2018
And I have an appointment for that Vaccine

That will burn all the daydreams

Like the one about Love
And Oatmeal
And Tangerines


If you have a beef about my horse whose name is
Eileen
If you've painted a wall at the finishing line
And said "Eileen is MINE, MINE, MINE!"

Well I've got some Cabbage ready to reheat
Cause on top of the Everest
You need warm feat!(1)


(1) The poet has taken out a license to spell "feet" with an "A" for the double impacKT just as "KT" has added more impact to the word impact.