REQUIEM
Up against the wall of my womb I was already
grooving to someone’s kitchen radio out there
playing "I’ve Got You Under My Skin"... and
at five, my twin-sister cousins already had me
be-bopping to "Dance With Me Henry"…
and on one seventh-grade summer night,I first
steered a summering city girl ’round the roller
rink as the Danleers crooned "One Summer Night"…
I smoked my first cigarette singing
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and, like you,
cut my guitar-pickin’ teeth on
"The House of the Rising Sun"… enrolled
in college on "The Eve of Destruction"…
graduated "To Sir With Love"… and then
soundtracked all the rest of my days to
the likes of Billy Joel, Dr. Hook, Harry
Chapin, Johnny Cash and Elton John… so
hey, when I pass? Play some things I’d like,
OK? Really make a joyful noise for once,
why don’t you? Give me a juke box funeral…
grooving to someone’s kitchen radio out there
playing "I’ve Got You Under My Skin"... and
at five, my twin-sister cousins already had me
be-bopping to "Dance With Me Henry"…
and on one seventh-grade summer night,I first
steered a summering city girl ’round the roller
rink as the Danleers crooned "One Summer Night"…
I smoked my first cigarette singing
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and, like you,
cut my guitar-pickin’ teeth on
"The House of the Rising Sun"… enrolled
in college on "The Eve of Destruction"…
graduated "To Sir With Love"… and then
soundtracked all the rest of my days to
the likes of Billy Joel, Dr. Hook, Harry
Chapin, Johnny Cash and Elton John… so
hey, when I pass? Play some things I’d like,
OK? Really make a joyful noise for once,
why don’t you? Give me a juke box funeral…