| The Land
Where Actions Have No Consequences
The Land Where Actions Have
No Consequences
Exists outside the course
of human eventses
You’ll never find it using
your five senses
You only stumble on it by
accidentses
People get there all the
time
But not by reason or by
rhyme
The Land Where Actions Have
No Consequences
Has no congressmen or presidentses
It has no navy and no coastal
defenses
It's not protected by mere
walls or fences
People get there all the
time
But not by reason or by
rhyme
They arrive by drifting
in
But precious few drift out
again
They have no income and they
have no expenses
They live in hovels and
they pay no rentses
They scoff at dollars and
they sneer at centses
In the Land Where Actions Have
No Consequences
People get there all the
time
But not by reason or by
rhyme
They bring back for souvenirs
Blasted eyes and withered
ears
And knapsacks full of wasted
years
Their language has no past
or future tenses
They have no religion and
no monumentses
No-one innovates and no-one
inventses
In the Land Where Actions Have
No Consequences
People get there all the
time
But not by reason or by
rhyme
They lie right down as though
they’d planned
To spend forever in this
land
The land where action comes
to nought
The land where deed gives
way to thought
The land where “shall” gives
way to “ought”
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