Get a Move on

Early cold something morning

Postman poncho skippy steppin

Hopscotch puddled, black shoe trouble

Mouse tail droopin, paws on the double

Eighteen wheelin, locomotive squeelin

Feet are movin, panhandler’s grooving

Refinance, realized rate, real estate, rebates

Not even Mama Kitty waits

Chop chop mama, that milk won’t lap itself!

Meow-meow, meow – meeee-ow, O-okay mama

I’ll keep it to myself

Got bigger fish to fry than a bum-cat mother-of-six

Train comes in 2-minutes, 4-minutes, 6-minutes

In 8-minutes I’m 2-minutes

Late, yes ma’am take my seat, yes sir here it is

Stood up, sahr-dined, quarantined, tight-knit soda-fizz

Hey man you got a cigarette?

No~oh

Hey man you got a moh-ment?

No~oh

I gotta fish-bone, lint-ball, apple-core

Inna brief-case, letter-head, upper-case

Blank memo witha blank state and a –

And the

doors open, nets release

 and the minnows spill out on the King-Street-grease

But after the flood I trip on the reshaped earth

Cover my eyes and squint and chaos in dearth

And a cane loosely gripped by a blind man

And he

And he smiles at me and I reach out my hand