Show Tune

On an empty stage

He began to play

the honky-tonk piano

with his left hand,

playing slow, and they

began to drift in from the wings

all casual like, though we know

now it was well choreographed,

they all sang high except

for the one called Rondell

who sang so low, cutting in

deep against the three

singing soft and high,

“We saw Jesus down

at the Barbeque place,

where they smoked ribs

while he smoked Camels, no filters

and Joseph hand rolled a Prince Albert,

licking it slow and just so,

and the girl they called Mary

Magdalene offered him a Colt 45.

And he began to preach as he ate

a pulled pork sandwich,

and they all believed

every word.”

The curtain falls

and the piano plays,

softly one handedly.