I was raised in a town in Oklahoma <br />I was crazy from the age of five <br />my Pa got busted in a drunken rage <br />and my Ma went with some other guy <br /> <br />I got kicked around from school through probation <br />for stealing some guy's Ford <br />but now I'm back I don't need rehabilitation <br />I'm rotten to the core <br /> <br />I'm bad I tell ya, I'm mean you believe it <br />I'll take you for every last dime <br />I'm so shook up religion won't come near me <br />and the devil is a friend of mine <br /> <br />I hit some joint in Elkhart, Indiana <br />there were some heavies on the door <br />their first mistake was letting me in <br />I guess they never met me before <br /> <br />I had some rye and a chick caught my eye <br />and started flirting with me on the floor <br />the band played on singing Ole Hank Williams <br />when the barman called his wife a whore <br /> <br />He pulled her from me and I just had to hit him <br />then a bottle came down on my head <br />the heavies moved in and I pulled a knife <br />and soon one of them was laying dead <br /> <br />People started screaming and running and leaving <br />when the law came through the door <br />I got shot in the arm and the leg <br />now I'm waiting for the Devil once more.<br /><br />Charles M. Moore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bad-and-mean/
