~ Nursery Crimes ~
     (I feel sorry for those who were born during the Dark Ages,
       but I feel even more sorry for those being born today...)

Please send me a prayer and a parable
For the darkness is darker than usual
In the daylight's disguise so unbearable
Full of lies so unclear and unprovable...

             Little miss Helen sat on a melon
             Painting her canvas to God
             Along came a poodle who broke through the middle
             Then killed her and buried her bones in the mud...

Fleece to hide the preacher’s greed
Instinct of the serpent’s seed

             Little boy Lenny picked up a penny
             Sharp as a razor-edged blade
             Along came a kitty who burned down the city
             By slitting his wrists and igniting his blood...

Sigmund’s warm synthetic grin
Rape and torture done within

             Little Susanna ate a banana
             Lifting her eyes to the sky
             Along came a monkey who tore out her tummy
             Then fiddled and danced while she suffered and died...

Tears became the teacher’s drink
Innocence the missing link

             And every time a final line was smeared in red upon the scene,
             “Don’t you dare forgive me kid ’cause I was sent to set you free”