Songs for Every Occasion

She seems to know a song for every occasion
she spoke to her brother after an earthquake
and kept singing, “Rolling, rolling on the river.”
Credence Clearwater Revival 

He wanted a rational conversation but instead
she remembered a line from another song,

“You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain,

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.”

Jerry Lee Lewis

Later she was reading about the drought

in the Midwest and how the corn

was dying in the fields then sang out loud,

“How many ears must one man have before

he can hear people cry?”
Bob Dylan

She got a call from a friend who was complaining
about a current boyfriend, her only advice was
“Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan,

you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free.”
Simon and Garfunkel 

When she attended a funeral 

for a neighborhood friend
the message she wrote in the card said, 

“We are all dust in the wind.”
Kansas

Some communications hit the mark
others are a nuisance and a bother
we argue about it on occasion and her response
is always the same, “The words of the prophets

are written on the subway walls.”
Simon and Garfunkel

I asked her when she planned to find work

she laughed out loud and sang,

“Different strokes for different folks,

 and so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby.”
Family Stone

I got fed up so I told her she has to go
she uttered something unintelligible
but I think I heard her say, “Every new beginning

comes from some other beginning's end.”
Semisonic

I responded by singing,  “Hop on the bus, Gus,

you don't need to discuss much,  just drop 

off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.”
Simon and Garfunkel