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Bulletproof Vest Palpitations

It’s Faint Paddies Day everyday, from my oxy scarce commuter view At this Rocky Mountain skin altitude, death is always on the dispatch menu Faint Paddies be sweating onion fear on a ghetto roll Cry babies be diaper blues potty wailing — Siren screams taking an asphalt stroll Smurf Daddies love talking wise guy tough to rearview mirror images of cowering suspects in handcuffs Fraidy Cats got a lot of Deputy Dawg courage, when speed bumping on suburban perimeter patrol Fear oozes thru those lynx pores when their metal horse flee chase coyotes across the Eight Mile border Faint Paddies flipping raw confessions on a roadside interrogation grill Tin star bipedal protection got a twitchy finger condition Bulletproof vest palpitations, pulmonary trigger beats cowardly lethal Skeleton key dirt cell slams given on a gutless command serve Phantom guns found in back-turned raised hands Allegedly, the bravest of the few are fear-tested and duly sworn Testimony given at the murder trial is wrist slap fraternal suborned Civilian low-grade paid to go do a thankless job most don’t wanna do Close call jugular boo ... Tremor callouses builds on a pearl handle knob Baby back blues got spineless, choke barrel nerves ... rushing into terror laid danger zones, with their faint hearts spinning on a swivel swerve Faint Paddies Bulletproof vest Fraidy cats on creep patrol Wielding their hollow metal courage, cowardly so Shaky words of brass sympathy given bereavement cold Widow morgue lamentations are coroner orphan told Blue smurf Lassies, with pretend Bravehearts, on a bullet hole roll ... firing palpitation tears of timidity Faint Paddies Day is always a green brew boo-hoo Last Mile holiday Faint Paddies get no public pity hoisted cheer handkerchief pose This is the fear profession they willingly chose

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