Bath Water Baby!

You can’t step into the same
Hallucination twice
Head like a jelly fish
Tail shaking like blind mice

You can paint all the seascapes
And sailboats you like
Who hears the waves crash?
Who gives up without a fight?

You might save all mankind
Even the fabled man on the street
Fifty years of belly fat
Plastic sandals on his feet

You might not have a method
But you never admit you’re wrong
Determined and stubborn
Doesn’t make you strong

You can call black white
With motives ignorant or Orwellian
They wouldn’t kick out of bed
But they’ll let you take a bath again

Bath water baby
Better throw it all out
Bath water baby

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Credits: Words and Collage by Jay Larsen