Toilet Paper Song

from Whisper & Shimmer IV: "Songs From Spare Rooms" by Justin Farren

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there’s a lady sweeping her tree and the toilet paper therein
trying to erase every trace of the youthful experience
that took place late last night on her front lawn as she lay in bed comfortably
watching reruns of “Everybody Loves Raymond” on her plasma screen
and I can’t help but catch a smile as I pass by in my truck
when I hear her mutter, “what a waste, what a waste”
it’s a funny place we’re living in where we can complain about the waste of things that,
left to our own, we would wipe our asses with
I hope someday I have some little house that little kids can throw stuff at
but I won’t take it down no, I’ll leave it up there in the tree and go on vacation
and when I get home from vacation, I’ll go up there in the tree and spray a preservative on the stuff
to keep it from biodegrading and the years will pass the rain will fall
and the stuff will get all sticky and weird and start growing spores
and that way, when that kid’s walking his kids to school he can look up in my tree and remember,
“I was gonna be a pitcher for The Sox you could’ve asked anybody on this block
I was gonna be… nobody could steal away home so relatively undetectably”
there is no time at all they just put a clock on the wall
and it makes you think you’re running late when, really, you’re doing great
you’re where you’re supposed to be otherwise you’d be someplace else

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from Whisper & Shimmer IV: "Songs From Spare Rooms", released October 22, 2021

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