Category: poetry

What a wonderful world?

The following is a parody of the song “What a Wonderful World,” most famously performed by Louis Armstrong, written by George Weiss and Robert Thiele

 

I see fields of brown and skies of grey

The cold, bitter night and the dark, rainy day

 

And I think to myself, “What a wonderful world?”

 

I see trash on the ground and trash in the sea,

Trash that’s been thrown there by you and me.

 

And I think to myself, “What a wonderful world?”

 

The odors of the planet are so putrid all around,

There’s poison in the air and there’s poison in the ground.

I see strangers who shrug.  They say, “What can you do?”

They’re really saying, “I hate you.”

 

I feel pain in my back, in my legs, arms, and head.

I find myself thinking, “I can’t wait to be dead.”

 

And I think to myself, “What a wonderful world?”

And I stink to myself.

What a wonderful world.

Schrödinger’s Head

“Schrödinger’s Head”

To be performed by: What’s in the Box?

Lyrics by Robert Elessar

Music to be written by Robert Elessar

Is the cat alive or dead?
 Is the stop light green or red?
 Is he awake or still in bed?
 Is he hungry or well-fed?

 I don’t know
 What’s going on
 In Schrödinger's  head.
 
Is he in charge or is he led?
 Is he below or overhead?
 Did you take in a word he said?
 You can go from A to Zed
 
And you won’t know
 What’s going on
 In Schrödinger's  head.
 
Everything’s divided,
 And everything is one.
 Your view is so one-sided
 But well-done is half begun.
 
Are you undecided
on what's already done?
The way ahead is lighted
by the blocking of the sun.

Did he charge or has he fled?
 Excited now or filled with dread?
 Is he behind or far ahead?
 We want to know, and yet, instead
 
We don’t know
 You don’t know
 I don’t know
 What’s going on
 In Schrödinger's  head.