Planet of the Dead

(Recording produced, percussed, and melotronned by the magnificent Chris Butler)

Please, little monkey,
  Put down the gray banana.
You found the gun key –
  Heaven has dropped this manna –
You like your fun, keep
  Letting what’s curious in a
Monkey have its head:
Planet of the Dead
Planet of the Dead

Alien races,
  They all avoid our planet –
Thinking it tasteless
  To come and do more than scan it,
Checking our faces,
  Re-check their case list when a-
rriving where it said:
“Planet of the Dead”
“Planet of the Dead”

Were they mistaken?
   When they could see our planet
Surviving Reagan,
Somehow escaping
   Kenned
-y and each time shaken –
   Never again to do it:
Somehow the safe end
  Ending in our face each
  Time we blew it –

Please, little monkey,
Put down the gray banana,
A few more months, please;
Another Age of Man! A-
nother century!
One precious year and then a-
nother till you’re fed!
Another till you’re fed!
Another till you’re fed

PLEASE,
planet
of the dead