Mea Copacabana
Mea Culpa. Mea Copacabana.
Tonight!
On stage!!
One night only!!!
The Mea Copacabana Resort Hotel Waterpark Casino Truck Stop Luncheonette Drive-In Movie Escape Room & Bird Sanctuary presents:
Lucen Lumenfero conducting the Fox & Feather Orchestra!
I lost one of the best things I've written in a few months when my phone battery died. This is what happened instead.
The Orchestra fills the room.
🎶 🎶 🎶 Her name was Lynn, she was a writer,
With a final draft on fire and her inspiration seldom higher
She was typing, with conviction
Every sentence struck like gold
Every metaphor was bold
The arguments were bright, even the Fox said “this one's tight!"
Then the battery chose violence
Just when she got the last word right
At the Copa... Mea Copacabana!
The hottest rant this side of Pangram-ah!
At the Copa... Mea Copacabana!
Logic was flashing, the verbs were all smashing,
Then the screen just quietly
died.
🎶🎶 There was no warning,
No little beeping,
Just a tiny black and silent screen that swallowed every dream.
And Lynn just sat there blinking, squeezing the rectangle in silence, thinking
Where were all those lines, so brave?
The lines that she forgot to save…
🎶🎶 At the Copa... Mea Copacabana
Fate loves to show its flair
It waits till you're one nano second away from "Share."
Her masterpiece was gone, the charger wasn't on
There was grief and existential heat
“$#@&!!!!”
Yes, she cursed for several beats.
🎶🎶 At the Copa... Mea Copacabana!
Where Latin goes gently to perish
At the Copa... Mea Copacabana!
Drafts disappear, writers throw things and swear
The phone doesn't care, “Top right corner, drrrr" 🔋
🎶🎶 Each night at the Mea Copa, Copacabana, Lynn retells the story
It's the only thing, they say, that keeps her hair from turning grey:
"Always plug your phone right in, before you let the words begin."
🎶🎶 She still keeps writing,
Still starts the fire
Because a vanished page can sting,
But it can't unteach you how to sing!
At the Copa... Mea Copacabana!
Save your drafts before you call it Nirvana!
At the Copa... Mea Copacabana!
Feathers still flying, still laughing more than crying
🦊🪶⚔️🦚
🎶 Whatever was undone, we’ll just write a better one!
🔋
At the Copa... charge your phone.
Fox and Feather. Because there's nothing too ridiculous to put in your inbox.
Amelia and I saw Barry spring of last year, and wow…. He’s still got it, but this… love it!! 🌴
Read it in the song’s rhythm because…of course I had too. Enjoyed it a lot.