| If I really meant it, | |
| I'd embrace a dead pet, | |
| or enter into a bet | |
| that I could be hung high | |
| from a telephone wire | |
| with no poor boy's pile | |
| of books underfoot, | |
| no stack of yoga mats | |
| or foam-core cushion pads | |
| to lessen the pressure of the phone chord | |
| choking my neck. |