How To Turn Left

Stand under the proscenium arch
Listen to show tunes till doomsday comes
Dawn with the songs of ever lasting darkness

Tap dance your last dance on Broadway 
Burn the last lime light down
Take midnight with you
Pay no tolls until you are told to
When leaving New York City 

Buy a Hybrid Prius on the road
Equipped with liberal intentions
With a west coast radio and global warming controls 
With a turn signal leaning left
Place your index finger and thumb on it
Push down until you get to somewhere rainy
Stop! 
Think before you start

Follow signs to California 
Wait for a fault line crack to appear
Watch it become a Democrat
Move gently and friendly towards green
Hug a tree for me 

Never become an old white man 
Elect some one young with hair
Avoid bald spots at all cost 
And railroad Catholic crossings
                                                                                          
Register as a Liberal  
Turn on CNN
Read the New York Times

Just stop! ….. I'm getting car sick
Let me out
Time well spent is behind you
Who needs a mind when you own a Prius
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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