Ear Worm
by Glen Martin Fitch
Just stop and listen.
Don't you have some song or other
all day running 'round your brain?
Why THAT tune?
Each one driving me insane.
Some dawns I think:
"Did THAT go all night long?"
And worse yet,
there are voices in my head.
"You dassen't do that!"
How she'd pinch my ear!
"A nigger might have touched it."
I still hear my grandma shout again,
though long since dead.
And I confess
I hear your voice as well.
I'm thinking thoughts
I'm sure that are my own
but hear them spoken
in your rhythm, tone.
I'm glad.
I guess it's just part of your spell.
My life is moral,
sound and never dull
while you are living
rent free in my skull.

