Joe Tennis Redeemed

Joe Tennis chased the one good idea

he'd had his whole life.

And when he finally caught up with it

he did what he thought

was right.

So he watched the idea's tail-lights

fade down the highway,

and with them the hope that

his life could be any other

way than how he found it

how he found it

how he found it

What was Joe Tennis thinking at the time?

'I'll let my idea

go, if it comes back to me its mine.'

But the idea hung a left

and become a faint spark on distant horizon.

The Idea knew things that Joe never did

and It smiled to itself

behind the wheel and lit a ciagrette,

when a frown of a thought

crossed The Idea's mind,

because if it, and you and I, think

we know Joe's kind,

then how had Mr. Tennis ever found it?

And he found it, twice.