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 How Mark Got Sane Copyright 1997, 2002 by Adam Selzer. All rights reserved, ASCAP
Mark Henry was a dishwashing man, Lord Lord, Mark Henry was a dishwashing man All night long he'd scrub 'em clean In a restaurant too cheap to buy a machine Instead there were three silver sinks in a row First he'd scrub in sink one then the dishes would go Into sink number 2, a rinse based fixture Then into the sanitizer, a bleach water mixture Tub one, tub two, tub three, tub one tub two tub three All night long with a break at 10:15 Over and over, night and day Mark knew that his sanity was getting away First it was creeping like a betrayed best pal Then it ran about like Archie Bunker's old La Salle He knew this was bad, but what could he do? He looked at tub one, then he looked at tub two Then he looked at tub 3 and something snapped in his brain So Mark decided to stick his head in the sanitizer to get himself sane He was down there 45, 50 seconds, a minute or more Til a cook walked in and nearly fell on the floor When he saw Mark drowning in that pool of sanity he was heard to shout "hey! Mark's drowning in a pool of sanity - ask Jane if we should let him out!" Jane drew heavily on her last cigarette, Exhaled, rolled her eyes, and said "yeah, go ahead and get Him out, and call a doctor to make sure he's all rightÂ… Aw, crap, who's gonna finish the dishes tonight?" So the ambulance came and it took Mark away And the doctors said, physically, Mark was okay But they recommended therapy to work on his brain And Mark came out of therapy Â…perfectly sane. September 2002 revised from non-rhyming version written September 1997
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