One Trick Pony -- Paul Simon

Guest poem submitted by P. Srikant:

(Poem #785) One Trick Pony He's a one trick pony One trick is all that horse can do He does one trick only It's the principal source of his revenue And when he steps into the spotlight You can feel the heat of his heart Come rising through See how he dances See how he loops from side to side See how he prances The way his hooves just seem to glide He's just a one trick pony (that's all he is) But he turns that trick with pride He makes it look so easy He looks so clean He moves like God's Immaculate machine He makes me think about All of these extra movements I make And all of this herky-jerky motion And the bag of tricks it takes To get me through my working day One-trick pony He's a one trick pony He either fails or he succeeds He gives his testimony Then he relaxes in the weeds He's got one trick to last a lifetime But that's all a pony needs -- Paul Simon

 From the soundtrack to the movie "One Trick Pony"; both soundtrack and
script were written by Paul Simon. Released 1980.

 Douglas Adams is dead. Here's something to remember him by on the Minstrels
- this album was one of the things his epic series "The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy" was dedicated to. A one-trick pony was something Adams didn't
want to be [1], though the Guide is what most of the world will know him by.
I really like Paul Simon's way of expressing his wish for a less complicated
life in the third stanza.

Srikant.

[1]
http://www.daily.umn.edu/daily/gopher-archives/1992/11/19/The_galactic_persp
ective.txt

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