Start Over

[00:08.35] little red riding hood was in good with the food distribution
[00:11.03] by her own volition choosing
[00:11.92] to sincerely deliver to old folks: succor, also vigor,
[00:15.54] cheese and crackers, salt and coffee,
[00:17.30] medicine to help the heart beat solftly
[00:19.10] awfully kind in her mission red was yes, in a head-on collision
[00:22.71] with the forces of trouble: long in the tooth plus stubble...
[00:25.42] and this goes double
[00:27.23] for all little girls, know who wolves are,
[00:29.09] don't be telling them where you're going, how far
[00:31.78] in what direction it is, especially if
[00:34.47] it's the ungaurded cottage where grama lives
[00:36.25] this is just common sense (with which little red dispensed)
[00:38.00] hence she proceeded on her way
[00:40.83] through the woods to grama's place.
[00:42.64] little red riding hood rolled up,
[00:45.36] took one look and was like what the um
[00:46.29] what the heck?
[00:48.98] grama got a hairy neck?
[00:49.80] teeth enough to get wrecked?
[00:51.69] next up, wood axe swinging
[00:52.56] that's how it happened, that's all I'm singing.
[00:54.34] that's the story (that ain't how it happened)
[01:00.89] i won't start over if you don't stop yapping
[01:02.69] (shhhh)
[01:10.24] wolves got it hard on this earth,
[01:12.00] ever the subjects of defamation and mirth,
[01:13.87] first in line to be out there, lurking,
[01:16.59] eyeing engenues and smirking,
[01:18.38] working on a master plan,
[01:19.29] trying to get fed about the best he can,
[01:21.04] wondering if grama got much meat,
[01:23.70] endeavoring not to be indiscreet:
[01:25.51] "how many them baskets she go through a month?
[01:27.39] how does she react when she misses lunch?
[01:30.01] and what direction was she living in again?
[01:31.82] well, you better hurry up and visit her then."
[01:33.60] but wolves are speedier than little girls.
[01:35.43] barely pausing to devour jackrabbits and squirrels,
[01:38.15] the wolf arrived.
[01:39.90] all the rest, despicable lies.
[01:41.72] all that talk of assumed identity,
[01:43.52] let it be, this wolf was indelibly
[01:45.35] wolf-like, forthright too.
[01:48.02] he said "grama, here's what I'll do:
[01:48.96] swallow you whole, your kinfolk for after,
[01:51.60] then I'll keep living, so you don't have to.
[01:53.49] sorry: starving wolf. no choice.
[01:55.25] to get in the gullet, just follow my voice."
[01:57.08] that's the story (that ain't how it happened)
[02:05.19] i won't start over if you don't stop yapping
[02:06.05] (shhhhhhh)
[02:10.64] all right, grama was hanging alone,
[02:14.15] cultivating the medicine for the glaucoma.
[02:16.94] she paid rent in the forest, it was inexpensive
[02:19.64] (grama's house was in the intensively wolf-rife section of town.
[02:23.28] she didn't mind, she liked a wild hound).
[02:25.04] sound at the door: an intruder.
[02:26.81] "is that you, red? you brought food for
[02:28.67] me to eat?" "nope, the opposite.
[02:30.43] no hard candy, so soft chocolate.
[02:32.22] just a wolf belly for you to inhabit
[02:34.04] and I'm going to need your nightshirt for the next gambit"
[02:36.76] clandestinely reclining in bed,
[02:38.57] the wolf awaits (for red!)
[02:40.39] expecting their usual banter:
[02:42.18] "how's school?" "fine, grama,
[02:43.92] here's food." "thanks dear."
[02:45.72] instead it's all: "what's up with the ears?"
[02:47.58] eyes nose throat teeth
[02:50.28] "little red riding hood, why you giving me grief?
[02:52.00] bodies change as the years advance
[02:53.80] soft features grow unkind to the glance
[02:56.56] and hairs sprout
[02:58.33] all of it the better for you getting in my mouth!"
[02:59.26] "wow, it's dark in here," says grama.
[03:01.92] here comes the wood axe, swinging like "yeah, y'all!"
[03:03.75] old woman, come on back out
[03:06.45] and lock up your door when you're lying around.
[03:09.18] that's the story (that ain't how it happened)
[03:20.87] that's all I got so you commence napping.
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