Parody of “Paper Wings”, words and music by
Steve Savitzky
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Parody lyrics ©2009-09-15 by Bob Kanefsky. All rights reserved. The copyright of the original lyrics and music remain with the holder(s) of the original copyright.
She folds a sheet of paper and tosses it aside:
Another clichéd paragraph, of hundreds that she’s tried.
It’s time to take a break for lunch; that’s all she wants to do.
A tiny primate cranium awaits her, full of goo.
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What a novel meal to make, so awkward to explain. When writer’s block is hard to shake, she eats a monkey’s brain. Monkey brains. Monkey brains. Monkey brains. Monkey brains. |
She recalls an early lesson from her bygone college days,
That a thousand monkey typists could write all of Shakespeare’s plays.
They say that you are what you eat, and cannibals concur.
Would a thousand small cerebra give those writing skills to her?
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She eats them ’til she spews out tales a thousand pages long:
Descriptions of a world where she would quote unquote belong.
A thousand monkey lunches, no more balanced than herself.
A flurry of rejection slips, a slow decline in health.
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It dawns on her one morning when she steps onto her scale:
She used too many monkeys, and it’s left her thin and frail.
She rushes to her office and begins to dance a jig.
The New York Times Bestseller List proves diet books sell big.
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