A STRANGE LAND IN
A STRANGE MAN
A Song
With All Due Respect to Heinlein!
(Written in 1998)




He's both a mystery

And transparent to himself

The older he gets, the stupider he feels

And the younger he sometimes feels,

The less he can perform

Like when he was young

And he goes on feeling

Like he's in heat

Though the excitement

Never feels like it used to



He's a strange man

A stranger in a strange land

A land in a strange man

He's a strange land

A stranger man there never was

A land that no one loves

Strange man that he is

A continent by himself

A country of one

Strange land that he is



An alien dropped off

On the wrong planet

In the twilight zone

Of another dimension

A great big unreality

With little true substance

And very little that's true

In any way at all

The most bizarre of bizarre

A great big disappointment



He's a strange man

A stranger in a strange land

A land in a strange man

He's a strange land

A stranger man there never was

A land that no one loves

Strange man that he is

A continent by himself

A country of one

Strange land that he is