The Spoonbill Generator

Two Hands Forwards, Two Peas Backwards

Once upon a noontime cheery, as I daydreamed hale and hearty, [Gussie]

I pondered on this theory: would my parts impart a party? [Ethetran]

Searching I, for resolution of this questionable query, [Grayman]

Partly charted all I'd carted - heavy hearted, tired and weary [chaise]

Of the daily revolution, I determined that tomorrow [Beefy ]

Would be the very day I'd die; impart this parting sorrow [jm]

But tomorrow never came - I was tired and slept straight through [chaise]

Funny how it works sometimes; the next day would have to do [jm]

But when the next day came around, my mood had turned about one-eighty [Beefy ]

And a razor to the wrist replaced my previous noontime gaiety [chaise]

But the fear of pain deterred me, and I turned instead to whisky [Beefy ]

Where a quick one off the wrist wasn't looking quite so risky [chaise]

And as Morpheus embraced me, with a glow beyond the curtain [Beefy ]

Life's catatonic reverie could never be more certain [chaise]

The Great Beyond was calling, out for the final refrain [jm]

So I didn't... cos I couldn't - but I'm gonna try again [chaise]

Just as soon as I establish if I'm like to be reborn [Beefy ]

Does my cockrel crow hard, like it does every morn [chaise]

Or am I doomed to live in an infernal roundelay? [Beefy ]

Or am I doomed to live in an infernal roundelay? [jm]

Once upon a noontime cheery, as I daydreamed hale and hearty, [(trad)]

Dopamine imbalance makes you wanna throw a party [chaise]

And so it was, my cheerful chaps; a rousing feast around the quarry [jm]

Daylong drinking; soon got stinking; made it home in time for Corrie [Beefy ]

Wondering if "life" is in fact our perception of death - could death birth life? [Megg Byrnes]

Is all the world then back to front - does peace engender strife? [Beefy ]

Come to my aid, oh minions - for I have said goodbye [chaise]

Anonymously they'll appear - to tell this coward's lie [jm]

But, as for me, I'm heading off to seek an island warm and sunny [Beefy ]

You as well? Yep, it's been a good run for the money... [chaise]


Contributors: Gussie, Ethetran, Grayman, chaise, Beefy, jm, (trad), Megg Byrnes.
Poem finished: 5th February 2004 by Beefy.