Outside the Box

Heard the term “outside the box”? What box are they referring to? Sitting here at my computer desk Don't see no box do you? A term you hear a lot these days What can it possibly mean This old guy is totally confused Totally betwixt and between Catch phrases have always confused me Much prefer Dick and Jane words So all us grandpas can decipher them This stuff is sure for the birds Maybe I'll get an old cardboard box And sit me therein for a while Then emerge and start thinking of stuff In a clever “outside the box” style Really that's not at all what it means Heard someone say emphatically Go where no man's ever gone before Think a lot more erratically Now confused much more than ever Think I'll lie down for a while Till the world spins a few more times And I get back my winning smile ©Jack Ellison 2012