Back in ye olde very long time ago time

’twas the time when Kings ate white bread and turduckens and sweetmeat

for breakfast lunch and tea

and snacks

While in the kitchens and sculleries

everybody else – you and me – the peasants

except all of those who are royal Kingly things

dined on the lentils and beans and wholegrain left overs

these were one grade above swine fodder

back in ye olde very long time ago

So the Kingly kings were corpulent kingly

and hence

King-sized beds were born

for the corpulent kingly kings ate their turducken and sweetmeats

for breakfast lunch and tea and snacks

necessitating giant-giant beds

(and caused premature heart disease and diabetes but this story is not about that)

(not at all about that)

Now you and I

in our pleasant-peasant ways

with our peas and lentils and whole-grain everythings

just one grade above swine fodder

the lucky ones in this lucky country

lucky for now

have a Queenly bed

huge – not Kingly huge but huge none-the-less

lucky for us

lucky for now

It might be time to share the bed

take a saw out and lop a side off

a side of bed

and plant it in the earth

(we can do that – it’s biodegradable)

(we can do that – it’s all-natural)

To make a new world bed

that grows seeds and wholegrainess and beans

for the birds and the animals

for the people too

A bed that flourishes and shares

the good things for all of us

peasants kings and birds alike

breakfast lunch and tea and snacks

from the earth for the earth of the earth

in our from our lopped-up queen-sized earth-bound bed