Dimestore Truancy

by Briyan Frederick Baker Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP © Briyan Frederick Baker Extended from a random mix of tapegerms by hebephrenic, Rootsy Records, Mike McGary and Viral Assault - https://tapegerm.org/random-mixer/ Dimestore Truancy Avoiding the teacher's confusing dia-ramas I never quite knew whatever the point was I couldn't go home to my mom, not a chance So I went down to the store and hung around in the back I was looking at comics when the officer came He stopped at the counter but the clerk drew a blank I was hiding behind the racks 'til he left Then I made my escape as the clerk stood and laughed [chorus] My dimestore truancy Not so much street smart fluency Than lucky stupidity And that's my little story of My dimestore truancy [break] Fifty years later under dollar store constructs Where mathematic symbols map the probable outcomes Of runway model cyphers wearing hand-me-down sack cloths Stuffed with the cash-strapped wads of modern billionaire class gods [chorus] It's only dimestore truancy Not so much street smart fluency Than lucky stupidity Hiding behind all the pulp rag diplomacy Erasing everybody's dimestore truancies 'Cos all the clerks are basically clueless Anyway [bridge] Yes, the clerks are basically clueless Of the economic predictors of lower class confluence Perfect storming today into catastrophic distress Of monumental proportions Precursing society's inevitable destruction more or less Yes, more or less If not for the fact that we're nearing the end Of this fantasy timespan we call that of man The globe might stop spinning if only now and again And shrug off this absurdity and let the cockroaches win [chorus] It's only dimestore truancy Not so much street smart fluency Than lucky stupidity Hiding behind all the pulp rag diplomacy Erasing everybody's dimestore truancies 'Cos all the clerks are basically clueless Anyway