Yes — I was the walrus
so too the fool on the hill
I was the nowhere man
sometime I feel nowhere still
but when the Fab4 took the stage
and raised their voice in song
they roused my golden slumber
my spirit sang along
I strolled to strawberry fields
along sweet penny lane
and when miss Rigby died
I felt McKenzie’s pain
stowed in the submarine
and sailed beneath the waves
down with the octopus
among the coral caves
and when the sergeant
struck up his lonely hearts club band
I fell in step by step
to march off to Pepperland
but before I’d hit the road
I ended up wounded in my bed
a delinquent name of Maxwell
took a hammer to my head
he’d come through the bathroom window
I forgot to shut it tight
I should have known better
but it’d been a hard day’s night
my friends had called for help
doctor Robert came in time
I’d said doc don’t let down
he did not — and I feel fine
cops searched helter skelter
looked here there and everywhere
but they found clues for no one
I said let it be I didn’t care
leaving home, you won’t see me
I said heading out the door
when I saw her standing there
my lover from the night before
oh darling let’s go day trippin’
I want to hold your hand
down this long and winding road
it won’t be long to Pepperland
now we’ve come together here
me and my sweet belle Michelle
she’s been writing paperback novels
the kind the drugstores sell
we have no plans to get back
we’re swept up in the allure
of Lucy and her diamond skies
on our magical mystery tour
even with George and Johnny dead
that old magic’s not yet slipped away
because old Paully‘s discovered AI
so a brand new tune is on the way
it will be so very cool
to hear them once again
to remember those wondrous days
get to relive them now and then
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rob kistner © 4/5/11
expanded version: rob kistner © 6/13/23
Poetry at: dVerse
