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Exercise in Song Probabilistic

Odds that one’s wishes for rest
And places to rest in coincide,
Where sleepiness is caused by drinking far from home—
Such a chance, in truth, is slight.

I make it one in three
That I’ll find land, foam or sea.
But your hearing of this song is, by now,
Something of a certainty!

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Exercise in Song Word-composition

Direct me routehomewardto:
I’m bedwardsdesirously bespent.
I littledrank at sixtyminutesprior o’clock,
And the glassfrom then headwent.

I’m detailagnostic,
And I won’t landseafoampick,
If you’ll let me sustainvoicèdly sing
My showmethewayhome schtick.

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Exercise in Song Word game

(Flower, heels, coniform, papism)

Now that I wilt like a flower,
And my wagon's lost its set of wheels,
And now the dog whose hair I've chewed on for an hour
Is snapping at my heels,

I think of coniform
And squat hills where I'd roam;
Yet I'll always pine for papism's hearth:
Show me the way to find Rome!

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Exercise in Song The subjective side

Show him the way to go home;
I'm tired and I'm not sure where it is.
You know that when he’s had a few, he won’t be told—
And that bottle there is his!

No matter how he goes—
In a stupor, trance or doze—
I'll be glad to see him finally find
The way that only he knows!

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Exercise in Song Animism

Wistful, a cottage now waits,
And cuddles a sleepy feather bed.
A splash of amber liquid dances round a glass
Then it flirts with teeth instead.

A cheery, hopeful whoop
Then proceeds to dive and swoop
Over lazy hills and fidgeting seas,
Finally reaching its coop.

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