Got Lockjaw; Use Your Key!



IAM not dreaming this up or down
sideways or spinning top round
or shoes buster brown
or even dogs as gods
turn that one around and try
to use your key foolish imp!
Daughter of the son of peter
don't you fret
you know the musical stop on the neck
of a classical twelve string gitar
or is it sitar, Ravi Shankar
and George Harrison or was it John?
This young girl child who has the key
was more so than ordinary
is she of age?
Oh don't get me wrong
if she is old enough to die for her country
then surely she is old enough
to die for the sake
of this planet Earth Garden Eden.
What do those few lone individuals
who understand and feel faith have?
An idea foolish female
just an idea of the who, the what, the why
where and when but not
the one true answer, right?
You should listen
to some early Crosby, Stills, & Nash!
Hey listen...really, its the Creators key!
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Submitted on February 03, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABACDEFGHDIJKKLMKNOPQRSDTUPVK
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 834
Words 171
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 29

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