Razor Sharp
I don't do the warmly wimpy
The baby blabbering stuff
I don't do breeze, blossom, snow, moon
I do groceries, laundries, bills, diapers
I only want to be razor sharp,
Sharp, sharp, sharp
Cut through the flesh
Cut through the bone
Cut through the crap
Every housewife knows how annoying it is
To have a kitchen knife that is dull
Baby is crying
People are waiting
And there you are like a dummy
Wrestling with the meat
I only want to know the truth
(The whole truth and nothing but the truth)
What Bush is up to
What Bin Laden is up to
What T.S.Elliot is up to
Why baby girl has to wear pink and
Baby boy has to wear blue
Why there is always something wrong with my cashew shrimp
But mostly I want to know this:
Why American butchers don't
Drain the blood out when they slaughter
It isn't a complicated concept is it
You cut the throat
You drain the blood out
So the flesh would be fresh and clean
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out does it
Now you kept the blood in
I have to wash and boil and wash and boil
Blood is not something people should see you know
Like the prisoners, the slaves, the sweatshops
The banned, the silenced, the poisoned
The tortured, the maimed, the raped
People don't want to see those stuff you know
It gets them nervous
Now the diners saw the bloody bone marrow
Ruined their appetites
Ruined my reputation
Darn it, darn it, darn it
- Re: Razor Sharpposted on 12/14/2004
Blood is not something people should see you know
Like the prisoners, the slaves, the sweatshops
怎么没人来评,很好的嘛。 - Re: Razor Sharpposted on 12/14/2004
Susan's English is poignant and funny at same time. Why not try New Yorker? - Re: Razor Sharpposted on 12/14/2004
Wow, got praised by Maya and Adagio, grinning ear to ear...
Don't scare me, adagio, I am just a housewife from a redneck state, never wrote a single English poem until 3 days ago. New Yorker is waaaayyy too uptown to me. - Re: Razor Sharpposted on 12/14/2004
why not? as maya said, nowadays every small bird gets his/her chance to sing, even Nobel prize is not that formidable. :)) - Re: Razor Sharpposted on 12/17/2004
Very good sense of humor.
Not only razor sharp but way deep! Good work!
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