My North American Friends (Spoken poem with music).mp4

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My North American Friends

My North American friends are crowding the bar
The lady behind is finding it bizarre
She’s getting confused by all the orders
From people that have crossed many borders
One turns to me and said you know it boy
I said yes because I didn’t want to annoy
They all started chanting and yelling
That the North Pole was their place of dwelling
In a moment of stupor they’re next to me
I was surprised to be their next draftee
They asked where I was from and going
I made my way through the table by elbowing

My North American friends are constantly traveling
Oh man there are things in Shanghai unraveling
In Istanbul they’ll cut you down
In Mumbai you better not go downtown
Casablanca wouldn’t let us be together
And when we were in Sydney we didn’t know whether
Johannesburg would like us any better
And we could not go to Almaty because we didn’t have a letter
I asked them if they came here for fun
“No, we are only invited to where it’s undone
We just want hot meals and a shower that works
Anything else in life we consider perks“

My North American friends watched her walk by
And one of them gave out a very audible sigh
If you wear it on your left hand she’d be curious
But I’m not trying to give advice that will make you injurious
Look at this one the oldest remarks
Between us there could be some sparks
Hey I went through that age and it’s tough
I realized he was just speaking off the cuff
He was slightly embarrassed by the others
He’d remove himself from the situation if he had his druthers
He smiled through and he sure liked to laugh
I’m sure there was something under it about a former better half

My North American Friends, I spoke their terminology
I could see through them without apology
They know how to have a good time rowdy
To not get up to pay until the drinks get cloudy
For anyone else it really doesn’t matter we’re backwoods
It’s really no shame we can’t travel to each other’s neighborhoods
I couldn’t quite get over the fact
That my whole life away I had packed
In order to rid myself of this stench
And then when I smell it I’m immediately back on the bench
Maybe I’m always my background no matter the cleanse
And I discovered that one night with my North American friends