I’ll Always Be Your Lemon Daddy
burial
My loves my loves my loves myLoves ok here go my wishes for burial
I want to be placed in a biodegradable sack
And slipped beneath your lemon tree
This could be illegal but
If you get caught show this to the police
And say you were trying to help Daddy out
Everyone understands a daddy who has asked
You please help with a thing a bit fucked up
I don’t think you will go to jail
But if you get fined I have started an american
Express high yield savings account
Nickname is LEMON DADDY
But probably no one will find out
And I can lie out under your lemons
Ahhhh and feed the beetles from my hand
And I can give all I’ve got to making your lemons good
And lemons are good on so much salads fish rice
Pasta soup tea cleaning your fingernails
After making your fish dinners
I will sing to them swell up little ones
Drink up sweeties and then when you pluck
One bright swollen cut it open lean in
You will hear the song here I am here I am
The only thing I don’t like about my plan
Is I don’t want worms to crawl into my ears
And tickle them I know this has to happen so
I will accept it but yuck but everything else
Will be great so much love for you
Packed in my body
Body becomes beetle
Beetle poop is the bread of worms
Worm poop is like cinnamon toast
Yup up the roots into the leaves
Flowers god I can’t wait for you to taste these lemons!!
They’re going to be good I promise
And if you have to sell the house don’t worry
About me after six or seven seasons I will be so small
All composted out leaves songs rain ahhhh
Mostly spirit I can follow you to your next place
Just buy a little lemon tree for me
The account will grow LEMON DADDY
Put me near your desk
I’ll hang out
Just a little thing in your branches
mistake
My loves my loves my loves myLoves ok what if you really
Fuck something up at work
I have done this so many times
Once I really fucked up this water cooler
The facilities staff said who
Fucked up this water cooler
I closed my door and pretended
I wasn’t there for 4 hours
I now feel I should’ve taken responsibility
Said that was my mistake
Is there something I can do to help
And I will try
Not to fuck this water cooler up again
And then reflection and forgiveness
Is it normal common ok expected
To make a mistake??
Is a person who fucks up a water cooler still worthy
Of respect dignity friendship clean water??
Daddy did anyone think to give you water cooler instruction??
If somebody else fucked up the water cooler
Would you judge them?? Or maybe go to them
With two hands embracing paper towels
Getting on the ground with them saying
This happened to me too
Here goes our 4-point plan so
No one fucks this up again
What is forgiveness
See if you can talk to yourself
The way you would talk to Umma
If she felt bad about a mistake
I love you I love you and you could fuck up a thousand
Water coolers every tuesday for a thousand years
Wow god I wish you would live a thousand years
I would trade 600 limbs for the chance
You live a thousand happy years
You cannot control if somebody else forgives you
And if they don’t ok bon voyage I hope
They improve their forgiveness skills one day
Teaching the melon to reserve judgment is advanced
You only control your own melon of forgiveness
And now I must recommend a thing
It’ll sound somewhat batty
It’s admission that breaking a cooler
Breaking anything really plus reflection forgiveness
Restoration actually strengthens modifies
The water-cooler breaker
As you break the thing
Bits of you also
Break off and lines
Of departure can be mended
With silver or lacquer maybe
Even a little golden blossom
From what would not be imagined my
Loves my loves continue to break away
Continue toward the unplanned blossom
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