Endless Revision, or Invoking Lei Gong

I must have revised yesterday's Yokel Song
ten times, and it probably still
clangs the gong.

I knew my logic was all wrong,
but I still didn't kill
yesterday's Yokel Song,

but kept revising it all to hell and gone.
There must be pills
that would keep the gong

from reverberating
my skull
so loud. Them pills'll make my song

sweet as my missed friend's voice
crooning along, even though we're singing
in a gong-

storm. Well, I've strung
speaker wire so I can be as shrill
with yesterday's song
as AI's Chinese thunder god, Lei Gong!

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