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By Mike Mahn
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The Perfect Little Place

 

There’s a perfect little house

In a perfect little place

With a perfect little yard

That presents the perfect face

 

To the perfect little town

With the perfect families

Who drive perfect little cars

And perfectly say, ‘please,’

 

When they perfectly ask,

“Will you recycle today

All your perfect trash?”

And add, ‘Have a happy day.”

 

But the perfect family

In this perfect little place

Has caused a perfect stir

 And a perfect disgrace

 

Because Daddy was caught

With the perfect neighbor’s wife,

And Mommy was heard

Threatening his perfect life,

 

And Junior got busted

On a perfect sunny day,

Smokin’ a perfect joint

In a most perfect way,

 

And Sissy got expelled

From the perfect little school

For calling a perfect teacher

A ‘perfect F-g fool.’

 

Now the perfect little yard

At the perfect little home

Has a perfect ‘For Sale’ sign

That sits perfectly alone…

 

In the perfect little place.