I Don't Care Package

[couchgrouch]

up-temp for a gal...I Don't Care PackageNow, I b'lieved it when you told meyou'd be out of town on businessso I looked forward to the presentyou Fed-Ex'd me for Christmasnow, I ain't no Dixie princesswho needs jewels fit for a showboatbut I must say I expectedmore than a regifted snowglobeit came with a cheap card your secretary boughtI hoped for a gift but instead I gotan I don't care packageand it's the thought that countscos jeepers Hthat thing barely weighs an ounceit's the sentiment not the sizebut lemme tell you trueHoney, just like youit's big box with a teensy prizenot much there, nuthin' to shareit's an I don't care packagewell, I found some ol' stuff you kept'neath my bed and in my closetstacked it up and started thinkin'whether to torch it or toss it'stead I boxed it and made a cardwith words that don't sound like Hallmarkthen cut ribbons from the jerseyyou used to wear to the ballparkgive it to the low down high-heeled broadthat you're sleepin' with on the jobit's an I don't care packageand it's the thought that countscos jeepers Hthat thing must weight twenty poundsbunches of your old Baywatch tapestubes of rogain hair geland that five pound dumbbellfrom that week you tried to get in shapetake it back, cos it's all crapit's an I don't care packagestuck your ring on the headof your Chewbacca dollwith some luck, you'll git twenty bucksin the pawnshop at the mini-mallit's an I don't care packageand it's the thought that counts...(c)2007 Robert George