FORMULAS

Written for friend Dennis McAllister of Crouch End, London, England; et alia...

To say that we go back like Similac

Is to be hella tight in the San Francisco Bay Area idiom;

It means of course that the subjects are intimate 

And have been familiar with each other for years.

Thrown clay cliché, mass produced, fired in a kiln!

Hoary, hackneyed and tired might be the lists:

Bullet point columns of concrete things. 

I guess I'm just a cheap date, easily entertained -

Unstrange. For I am early Alanis. 

Or maybe I'm Denis Leary, all

Name-drop and juxtaposition-centered punchline.

There are formulae, and then there are formulae, including even recipes for disaster...

Break a leg, player! Thespians are, yes,

Shitty people who don't seem to improve

The quality of their character much upon getting wise

To their own shtick. Such is acting!