One day you’ll get there — A free verse satire
The Doc At the Top of the Stairs
Well, I take another toke
Watching Gunsmoke
And Doc comes down
The stairs
Helping a lame old lady
Their heads down and aching
A sagging, sorry pair
They get to the ground to see
Men with guns in the street
Booze and whores through the doors
and men you don’t want to meet
A drunken cowboy staggers over
To help the old folks down and says
Doc, why you got yer office
At the top of the stairs?
Why we gotta drag our own
On up to ya?
And the ornery old doc replies
“This way I only have to treat
The ones that can make it”
He’s the Doc with the office at the top of the stairs
Darn ol’ grouch, he doesn’t even care
If he’s the one who’s hobbling, infirm or lame
To the cruel old stairs, we’re all the same
Billie needs a shot and Mama’s got the chills
Back in the day when they ain’t got no pills
Pa broke his leg taking his last step
Doc shakes his head,
another misfortune met
Would the robber know misery
If they had to visit the livery
At the top of the fucking stairs?
Would the horse break loose
If you gave him a goose
At the top of the fucking stairs?
Would there be as much fun to boozin’
If’n ivry time ya pissed you was cruisin’
To the top of the gah dang stairs?
Oh once we get her there, we’re leavin’
Mama at the top of the stairs
Doc, did you bring me anything
To get to the top of the stairs?
My ankle is green
And is not moving anywhere
Remember how we’d do
The old do si do
And your fingers would make
A fumbling scene?
How your cheeks turned red
When I said your underwear
was blue? I needed to see
You
For the last time
And that one snippy tooth
He has licorice for the kids
And suckers too
See how easy it is
To get up the stairs like they do?
If you can’t make it
That’s quite alright, you see
He’ll always be waiting
And one day you’ll make it
To the top of the fucking stairs
Oh, one day your spirit will take you
To the top of
The fuh keen stairs!
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