return to home page 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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