Thanks a lot, Jerry.

I was sitting here
minding my own business
thinking about the world
and its state
and how it’s a shame
that everyone can’t just get along
and I was thinking about the animals
and the plants
and how they have lived successfully
in the earthosphere
for thousands of years.
– numerous thousands –
and I was wondering how
we were ever gonna make it
you know?

I was just sitting here
on this hill
while you guys were smoking
whatever it was you were still smoking
over in the garage.
I was thinking deep thoughts.

I was considering the universe
and it dawned on me:
the solution.
The answer to all the problems
so simple, so elegant
so easily available
to resolve the primary problems
all up in our planet
and I was about to open my eyes,
get up and find a pen
when you came over
with that stupid can of
– what is that, Schlitz, Jerry?
You’re offering me a fucking Schlitz?

And now it’s gone.
I just forgot.
It’s out of my head;
the resolution of all our crises.
I had it
and it’s gone
so thanks, Jerry,
like, a lot.