John McKernan

The Sundial Had the Words

I will conquer the world
Disguised as a grain of sand

The clerk at the grocery store
Keeps telling me
You need a valid passport to buy a funeral

When my VW exploded in Arkansas
I hitch hiked past a cotton field
Where children behind barbed wire screamed
Your girl friend is ugly as a lemon peel

The man on TV says
Maybe we need Guillotines
Wherever I turn
A blind man with a stop watch
Whispers my name Sharpening his scythe

He always pronounces it wrong