The Garden of Cartoon Exclamations

Knuckle-deep in the soil in the garden of cartoon exclamations

Among the zoinks!-vines and shazam-roots,

Suffering succotash, leafy green good-griefs

Each uses the other as his own playing field

To help boost the clichés of the future -

Kittens named Kitler and depressants as baby-sitters

This one's a box! And this box contains

the electricity and the range

of who in an emergency seems to have emerged as me

so in some other someday baby

just say don't bother - it's a bummer

And leave the hows and fors of things

for the nilla wafers and chz puffs

She's come to recognize the sound of her own name being written

And each breath is her signature

She's come to recognize the sound of her own name being written

And each brush stroke is her signature

She's come to recognize the sound of her own name being written

And each moan is her signature

But "Why" still must be the heaviest soft syllable