Crazy How One Can Speak of the Crazy One

Crazy How One Can Speak of the Crazy One 

Bop Variation

crazy how one can speak of the crazy one 
in the family the crazy one as if crazy birds 
and crazy lives in a hazy disjointed co-existence deep in chicken shit

such as crazed chickens in chicken coops going Cu cu ru cu
when el Cuco shows up how they'd cannibalize rather than starve how 

they derive of yolks then hatch out of eggs that had to come from somewhere loco

                                 Maybe we're crazy / probably eee

stay away from me crazy / as if there were 
only one crazy one as if there were only one kind of crazy
as if crazy ones were not more contagious than corona virus
in a mentally ill society / maybe you're crazy in more ways 
than one / in more ways than me / that's for sure / not sure where it comes from 
i was sure so sure i had it all yup I had it all figured out /until the years passed 

and i looked at the cousins —and their church —and their church friends 

                                   Maybe we're crazy / probably eee

when i saw the poetically-pretty cousin and her MC husband wit the nice flo / the parents of six, were both followers of a slick gringo who professed christian values— who said that women shouldn't be allowed to vote said Black Lives Matter eh didn't matter much and was un-american anyway, said fucked up shit about George Floyd i won't repeat / said they opposed affirmative action and federal recognition of Juneteenth / citing scripture advocated puhlic stoning/said that that mass shootings and gun deaths are an eh acceptable though tragic cost for keeping gun rights—forget about the children, who cares —alas my long unanswered questions of whether mental illness runs in families —is this craziness genetic or the by product of a sick society? got me to thinkin'

                                   Maybe we're crazy / probably eee

                               

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The refrain or repeated line in this Bop variation borrows its words from the song "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley.