Old Man

Hey old man ! What are you doing trying to be cool, writing poems and acting like a fool? Your time has come and is gone, your days have vanished with your songs. So don’t go trying to lay it down. You can’t be serious with all those rhymes. It takes a whole lot of man to be straight, to be a poet so-called. If your dream is to be righteously hip you better get on the righteous trip. Ride cool in the stormy weather. Take off and fly. A pen is all you need to keep your rap, to lay down your dream with a mighty blast. But you can’t cop the dream sitting on a bench scribbling out words by the inch. To be cool it takes all that you’ve got, to throw out your sound in movement and thought. To be lean is so obscene A life for old men who sit and scheme. To get down you got to be strong Give it all your body and soul. Being hip is a full time job, not for old men or little boys.