Fiji Mermaid

Stitch up the nets but the patch won't stay

As the nail beds rest in the calico hay

The Fiji Mermaid dressed in macrame's

Wading road in the fork and a bend

In the spoon tern cut short as a shadow at noon

Melting like wax as that once full moon's

Now waning ersatz acts an insufferable bore

'Sharp Shots' dull as a harlequin's sword

When doing as you please doesn't please you anymore

Stick of the match as the paraffin show

Drop a nickel to watch the asparagus grow

'The stone in what shell?'

You sure like to know now don't you?

A loom in the heir as the medicine came

To the nest of the mare of the mystery claims

But you'll miss having someone to blame

For your sadness, now won't you?

Well maybe there'll be a bakery hiring --

We'll knead a little dough to get by

[Groan!]

Did you come knocking on my door

Or did I come to yours?

Whose ship came washed up on whose shore?

And from what ocean floor?

There wasn't much to her dress

& I felt stuck in my body like a horse in quicksand...

Didn't you come knocking on my door?