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The year in review

Here’s to the little god Tourettes
who puts strange words in peoples heads
makes them say things they never think
and creates an awful stink

If we are parcel and part
of the world and all its evil arts
how’s one to know what’s in ones heart
until we suffer a brain fart.

For when the mind misfires and slips
it’s not often “I love you” on our lips,
and we are likely going to utter
words that come straight from the gutter.

So Kramer is a stand up guy
who’d never take a racist stance
but one day it just happened
that his brain had a momentary spasm.

Had he in character remained
he might have salvaged his good name,
instead of words dark and raw,
he could have just said Yo Yo Ma!

Or Mel who could reason throttle
in his passion for the bottle,
see the world beset by Jews
then hide in rehab from the nightly news.

A little booze, a verbal tic
his tongue was not his own to rule,
strange words he heard from his own jaw,
he couldn't just say Yo Yo Ma!

And Zidane in the heat of the final game
thought he heard someone dis his mother’s name
and took it into his head
that something really bad was said.

But context cannot be subdued by law,
for what is our mind but real estate,
its not the thought but its location,
which Materazzi, clearly saw,
for all he said was Yo!
yo ma.