Tug Dumbly - Oedipus & Messiah

Oedipus & Messiah

Oedipus complex

meets Messiah complex

in a shopping complex

they plan to marry, buy a duplex

have a son named Rex.

They’ll embrace anti-pasto

anti-freeze

and the anti-christ.

They’ll live the life of Riley

the real McCoy

be happy as Larry

with Hobson's choice

but Murphy's Law says

they have Buckley's chance.

They hail mary

hail caesar

hail hitler

hail a cab

they honeymoon and send postcards

of the big potato

big banana

big sheep

big prawn

till she finds

the small penis

and writes a haiku on it

and sends it as a postcard to her lover.

Cowboy lover unwinds in his chair

serpentine cool

hair-trigger smile

coiled to spring

there's a blue baby in the bath

there’s a body in the pool

and that’s the end of act 1.

Meantime, ‘small packages

come in good things’

screams Oedipus enraged

engaging in bedroom,

bathroom, bar and brothel rage,

staging drive-by shootings,

home-delivered hits, takeaway killings

without the messy bits.

He goes looking for himself

finds god in a garbage bin

and goes home homes singing

there's an itty bit a hippy in everyone.

Messiah, eyes all a glisten, says

well stone the crows

till the cows come home

you snake in the grass,

you vulture, you fox,

you shark, you weasel, you ox.

All is forgave, come here you divil

as she takes him in like washing

Oedipus nuzzles her fond,

says the gall, the nerve, the hide, the cheek

humanity is listing,

but least we have each other ....

it's a funny old world

there's a lot to be said

there's a lot to be said

it's a funny old world

jesus I wish I had a dollar

for every dollar I ever had.