ONE

One note song

One trick pony

One act play

One lap race

One dimensional man

Those things you do

The way you are

When you could be so much more

Than One

Just one piercing sound

You are so wrong

Pulsing in a round

Going all fucking night long

I don't know how you do it

You must be circular breathing

I throw some pepper in your face

In hopes of you sneezing

Alas your clamor continues

I poke knitting needles in my ears

But the sound is in my bones now

Bringing me to utter tears

I look for a drill

Wishing to bear all the pain

To put a great hole in my skull

For the satisfaction of scraping you from my brain

But there it is

That sustained whole note

Wholly unsatisfactory to me

Curdled from whatever the composer really wrote

I'm reverting to crowdsourcing

In search of a solution

Printing up flyers and creating websites

In hopes of a cyber revolution

I pray that it will succeed

And attract a mighty throng

To fulfill my silencing need

And kill forever your one note song

One note song

One trick pony

One act play

One lap race

One dimensional man

Those things you do

The way you are

When you could be so much more

Than One

You are a one trick pony

Though you think you are the best

You stand still and stare

Oblivious to all the rest

Yes that seems to be your one trick

Standing there

Like a creep

Your tail idly swishing the air

I'm not impressed

That pony over yonder

Is running barrels and doing math

Now that's something to ponder

Can you even do math?

You must be able to run

It is a standard horse-y thing

Or are your talents literally limited to one?

One breath in

One breath out

Tail swishing

Eyes blinking

Surely you must eat

I dig around in my pockets

And offer you a treat

You just continue your stare down

Though with who I do not know

I move from side to side

Your gaze never wavering

Horse eyes open wide

At that I lose my patience with you

And walk off in disgust

No more time will I waste

Stand there for all time if you must

But I'm through

There are so many other horses

All much more talented than you

With your one trick

One note song

One trick pony

One act play

One lap race

One dimensional man

Those things you do

The way you are

When you could be so much more

Than One

One set piece

A living room most drab

A jury chamber

A panic room

You can picture whatever you like

After all it is your doom

One scene

Probably at least one hour too long

Audience crossing it's legs

Because everyone has to pee

There are no intermissions

No break no respite

No concessions

One actor

You up on that stage

Regurgitating lines

Manufacturing fake rage

Slipping glycerin in for fake tears

Like we wouldn't notice

We are sophisticated

We are your peers

One act play

It really gets old

Sitting through the same old scene

Every night opening night

Every afternoon a matinee

Dinner theatre is the worst

But you have no shame

For it's your mistaken belief

That your one act play

Will make of you a star

One of these days

One note song

One trick pony

One act play

One lap race

One dimensional man

Those things you do

The way you are

When you could be so much more

Than One

One lap

To win this race

To make a record

To set the pace

I've got the stopwatch started

Don't watch the clock

It will steal your mind

So hang onto your frock

The lap may number one

But it's a long way round

Things can change

Decisions abound

You start off alone

Others gather as you go

But you end it alone

Just as you began so long ago

I can see from where I am

Your halfway around

With halfway to go

Optimism abounds

Your cup is half empty

Your cup is half full

You're optimistically pessimistic

It's even embroidered on your shirt of wool

Just your luck though

Your shirt it's red

And if there is one thing we know

Is that red shirts end up dead

But nary a worry

My timey wimey friend

You've got ages ahead of you

Before you reach the end

One note song

One trick pony

One act play

One lap race

One dimensional man

Those things you do

The way you are

When you could be so much more

Than One

You are going in a straight line

I can intercept you at any point

Predictable

Predestined for failure

I saw you look behind you once

But usually it's eyes front only

Looking towards your doom

Looking towards your success

Looking towards whatever comes next

You might as well

Because you never deviate

If something happened next to you

You wouldn't even hesitate

It's like you have blinders on your eyes

Focusing you in one direction

Thataway

As far as I can tell

I'd love to see where you end up

But I'm veering off soon

I've found some prospects over there

Over THERE

Look, dammit!

Oh that's right

You can't

You are a one dimensional man

Doing what you can

In that one direction

Nothing new to say

Always forward

Come what may

One note song

One trick pony

One act play

One lap race

One dimensional man

Those things you do

The way you are

When you could be so much more

Than One