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Tap your red heels Dorothy
There is no place like home
Cause home just isn't home no more
You wonder where it's gone
The farm you used to live on
Your uncle sold the land
There's rows of houses now
Where rows of wheat were wont to stand
The local grocery store
Became a giant megamart
And your poor Auntie Em
Can barely push the plastic cart
The farmhands you so loved
Well, they all lost their jobs
They wait for unemployment checks
and became drunken slobs
Professor Marvel's wagon
Was taken by the bank
They had to repossess it
When his show went in the tank
Miss Gulch is in a nursing home
She chased a dog and tripped
She fell down in her garden
Now she's got a broken hip
So if you come back Dorothy
Home's not like it was before
You may say to Toto
We're not in Kansas anymore!
submitted for Poets United, Thursday Think Tank, #84 Home
8 comments:
life changes pretty fast...my home town looks nothing like it did growing up...i like some of the playful parts in here on the people....
Time to send in the flying monkeys...
I don't know whether I want to laugh or cry......
Love this!
I guess we didn't much think what happened After the Rainbow..........
:)
And, that's exactly what happened!
OMG, is this ever apropos! Sadly only too true. Now KANSAS is Somewhere Over the Rainbow and the wizard behind the curtain has gone mad.
You just dropped a house on me to my favorite movie of all time.
This is the only movie outside of the 'Godfather' that I choose to watch repeatedly. Now I'm sad even if your message and well versed piece is relatable. 'sniffle' 'sniffle'
Kansas is not what it was when the book was originally written
four brilliance senryu
Oh my!
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