ALWAYS CATCH A STRAY THOUGHT

WRITER charles roberts

JUSTICE, LLC

Red mini skirt

Star Trek tribute

So you were born on Earth in a land with a long and powerful tradition. Then your vision of loyalty and wisdom grew up to a greater calling -

The United Federation of Planets

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We got tribbles on the ship, Jones in the brig

Quadro-triticale in the cargo hold

Klingons in the quadrant,

Standing off the bow

 

She got Stalin on the wall, sputnick in her box
flags in the hall, Lennon in a locket
Mao along the march, Vulcans on her sox

 

Got the red shirt blues, she wears a red mini-skirt

She loves the Federation, she wants to be true

When she’s on the starboard watch it’s red, white, and blue.

She wears a red mini-skirt (fire!) red mini-skirt

Strut’n go-go boots, dyin’ to be free.

 

Within the halls of the Kremlin

She holds Federation charter

But what really starts her dreaming

Are the works of the human

called Karl Heinrich Marx

 

She keeps it in her tablet, reads it at night
knows that its real, shows that its right
To wear red mini skirts,

Red mini-skirts,

RED mini-skirts!

Strut’n go-go boots, dyin’ to be free!

(RED ALERT - REPORT TO THE BRIDGE)

 

And in the duty of the terminally red
It's not who you are

It's not how you look

It's what you’ll do.

And in the duty of the galactically free
It ain’t where you warp,

It's how many comrades you see

Standing off the bow

 

Getting the red shirt blues wearing red miniskirts

Red mini skirts, strut’n go-go boots

Strut’n go-go boots, dyin’ to be free!

 

©CHARLES ROBERTS 2021

 

Compliments to J. Kilzer

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