Square Blues

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Part 1 – Idioms

Like a question posed clearly
And like everything done fairly
We’re all even now,
We’re pegs in round holes

I want it in every single meal
And every handshake deal
And now we’re right back where we started
By your side like we never were parted

I gotta be there or be hip.
Shoulders raised up to my lips
Do it to a circle, do it to a turn

Arguments, answers and eye-stares
Things where they go, TP that I can’t spare
I’m not itching for a fight
A good rationale and we’ll be all right

Part 2 – Places

Took a big trip, see the world’s four corners
Some places are wide open, others tight quarters
Trafalgar in London, St. Peters in Rome
Times in New York for when I get back home

The best spots are in the center of town
There you can see everything that’s around
La Défense in Paris, Piazza San Marco
Tiananmen in China, Red in Moscow

Part 3 – Numbers

One is a perfect starting block
The fab-4 reinvented rock
Cloud 9 is the place to be
At your sweet 16 or silver anniversary

I could go on, but I’ve just begun
A hundred an hour won’t that be too fun?
When I’m 64 I’ll have a million done

Part 4 – Things

Dance! Dance! Dosey do
Checker boards, rubiks cubes, tic-tac-toe
Swiss flag, spongebob, dice, shoulders, jaws, gross,
Hollywood game show, boxing ring, and post-it notes

E over M as a function of C
Downhill trails that I like to ski
floppy disks, rope knots, Triscuits and a crossword
Pizza boxes, album covers, bingo cards and chess boards
Monopoly and scrabble tiles, corners, 4-by-4
City blocks and area, joints and senators

Everywhere it seems
There are equal-sided things

American cheese on burgers from Wendy’s
Carré in French, Quadrado in Portuguese
Sudoku, roots, and Pythagorean Theorem
Right angles are everywhere there’s no need to fear ‘em

Sugar cubes and ice cubes, diamonds and nerds
Carpenters need a tool, I’ve heard
Parallel lines that cross perpendicular
Baseball infields all have 4 corners
Wombat poop, graph paper, pats of butter
Art by Picasso and a lack of clutter

Everywhere it seems
There are equal-sided things