Brent Busboom - Momus

This chronicle purports to be

A true account for all to see

Of the picaresque adventures

Of Mr Brent Busboom

The picaresque adventures

The picturesque inventions

The life and the opinions

Of Mr Brent Busboom

(The life and the opinions of Mr Brent Busboom)

When you grow up in a hick town

Never let it get you down

Build up all your irony

And bang on a big bass drum

Born in Champaign Illinois

Busboom, a precocious boy

Compiled a redneck dictionary

Entitled it The Hictionary

(He compiled a redneck dictionary, entitled it The Hictionary)

At high school Brent took on John Flynn

Headmaster and puritan

Who declared 'disruptive to the school'

An oil in the painting show

Of Nancy Reagan on a rug

Upon her head a crown of drugs

Busboom contrived to blackmail Flynn

And the painting went back in

(The painting went back in the show but John Flynn had to go)

At Reno University

Brent showed his true perversity

With a paper on commercials

By the ad man Bill Bernbach

Busboom’s essay made the claim

That Bernbach’s cereal campaign

Had drawn its inspiration from Milton’s Paradise Lost!

(Life Cereal: as crunchy as Milton’s Paradise Lost!)

If you want to know a bit about prejudice

Just ask an old Creationist

Like William Jennings Bryan

Who got Darwin banned in schools

Brent Busboom, his descendant

Took paintbrush and amended

The Nevada state motto to

'A great place to get screwed'

(So welcome to Nevada, a great place to get screwed!

And never let a monkey make a monkey out of you)

Well he went to work in a burger bar

But he lasted only five hours there

They caught him spreading pamphlets

Saying the meat was human flesh

'Our butchers will recycle you

To make the best of death

Why not donate your body for a burger made of flesh!'

(A burger made entirely of recycled human flesh)