Dying Degree

Dresser drawers are filled with pocket change

Coupons cut smoked to the butt

Is this what dreams are made?

Adding up, subtracting down, you find

Yourself sucking the rind

Dying degree

Graying amie

Final payment made, had you forgot

The rightful owner of one deluxe cemetery plot?

Paisley satin lined, how apropos

What a better way to go?

Dying degree

Graying amie

No more eating crumbs

When my pension finally comes

You kids won't eat mush anymore 'round me

Dying degree

Graying amie

Dying...