No Surrender by AI

Author:AI
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-05-03T04:30:00+00:00

A Cigar Is—Oh, Nevermind

They said all you have to do

Is follow the bouncing Betty, I mean ball,

Well now, maybe it was something else.

Oh yeah, read the teleprompter, they said,

If you lose your way, I mean place,

On the straight and narrow path

The Lord ass-kicked me into taking

And here I am in front of the cameras again

Trying to explain that when I was a young man,

I didn’t worry about tomorrow.

I was very fortunate.

Sorrow had never knocked on my door

And if it had, I wouldn’t have answered.

I had enough on my plate of grits,

Well, okay, whatever it was

Was on a plate.

I hate to rush you

But I have matters of state to attend to

So you’d better get on with it

And ask the question you’ve been dying to, uh, um—

Ask?

Wait a minute, I will say,

Sometimes a kiss is justa kiss, uh,

Or is it a cigar?

Well, you know what I mean.

You’ve seen it on the news

Just like I have.

I sure didn’t read it in the paper.

I don’t have the patience for it.

I like somebody to read to me;

It helps me focus on the important things

Like—uh, what was I just saying?

I’m kinda preoccupied right now.

Got a lot on m’plate.

Did I say that already?

You can’t make hay without, you know—Grass?

Sometimes when you have a date with destiny,

You run a little late,

But you get there.

There’s no disgrace in that.

I think the disgrace would be if I let a buncha—

Uh, let someone tell me how to govern.

I have the best teacher anyone could.

I don’t have to tell you, well, maybe I do,

I started at the top of my game,

Well, both of them.

See these hands?

Steady as the rock of ages.

That’s all you need to know.

Can I go now?

I mean I can go now.

Okay, okay, one question. What’s that?

Sorry, we’re out of time

And we all know time waits for no man.

Put that in your pipe and toke, I mean

Smoke it.

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