Civilized Bard

Good advice.

If you tell the truth,
if you work real hard,
come to dinner on time
you’ll be a civilized bard.
Lies won’t trip you up,
the sloth will be set free.
Then at dinner time
you‘ll be all you can be.

If truth fronts your walk
and work defines you so,
you'll be like Shakespeare
in England long ago.
Then when dinner's served
and timeliness be true,
to be or not to be
won’t apply to you.

If your sleeves are rolled
and toil finds you right,
if you’re ere the serve
each day will be delight.
Comparisons will come
just like a summer’s day,
then virtue will be yours
and life will be okay.

If you flee the fib
and if you labor long,
life will be a poem,
a most uplifting song.
So be prompt for meals,
it’s really not that hard.
In the scheme of things
you’ll be a civilized bard.


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Writer’s Cramp
February 18, 2014