I wake up every morning,
I'm already overstressed,
I read The Wall Street Journal ,
I get even more depressed.
* * *And I wonder if I'm tough
enough
to make it one more day,
I should have stayed a hippie,
life was easier that way.
* * *I sit down at my desk,
I prepare to pay my dues,
Then I contract a nasty case
of the small-business man's blues.
* * *My overhead's incredible,
my profit margin's low,
My help is undependable,
my cash flow is too slow.
* * *I went golfing with my lawyer,
he charged me for his time,
I'd call up my accountant,
but I gave him my last dime.
* * *You want this house of horrors,
you can have it for a song,
Oh, Lord, don't let me be
a small-business man for long.
-- From "Small-Business
Man's Blues,"
by Steve Brennan
* * *(Brennan's album, Right Here, is available from Mooselook Records, 26 Leavitt Rd., Hampton, NH; (603) 926-7970. Cassette, $10; compact disc, $15.)
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