BEAT UP LIMO

Beat up limo

Fenders smashed in.

Beat up limo

Long & black,

Paint chipped off its fins.

Beat up limo

Suicide skeleton

Behind the wheel

Orders you

Get in.

Beat up limo

Seats torn, windows cracked.

Beat up limo

Word is

It can’t be

Photographed.

Holes in the floorboards,

Rust in the mirrors

When it

Pulls up at last.

Beat up limo

Engine cracked, breaks pumped

To the floor.

Beat up limo

Time and space are corpses

In the morgue.

Beat up limo

Flames burning

Out the tailpipe,

Big oil pan smoking

Out the doors.

Beat up limo

Tight curve up ahead.

Beat up limo

Everything on it

Looks like it’s been

Through a horrible wreck.

Beat up limo

Skip the doctor,

Call the undertaker

Instead.

Beat up limo

Squealing tires about to blow.

Beat up limo

Bullet riddled headlights

Show things no one knows.

Beat up limo

Horn blaring out

Shattered windows,

Chassis pancaked

By homemade bombs.

Beat up limo

Sheriffs & judges crowd around.

Beat up limo

Wealth and illusion

Know no bounds.

Beat up limo

Blood pouring

From the skull

With the

Golden crown.

24 November 2004

Spoken word version from Trashtalking Country.

Copyright © 2005 by Jim Cohn.