Why do you like what you do?
Why do you like pine cones
And daisies
Why do you like letters
And pop tarts
Or sand
And cokes too
What are your reasons for liking cardboard?
And microwaveable popcorn
Or wreck it Ralph
As well as back alleys
Why do you like what you do
What are your reasons
Is it because you could never collect pinecones?
Where you used to live
So you'd do it during summers
And take them back for Christmas
Do you like daisies because roses scare you?
With the symbolism of the petals and thorns
Every inch of a rose tarnishes your thoughts of love
When all you wanted was something pure
Do letters remind you of all your summers when you lived there?
Writing them to friends for their airplane rides
A remembrance of who they are to you
A genuine thanks to them for being kind
Did the pop tarts actually taste better?
When you shipped them back in boxes
Because you'd Eat them sparingly right
So you don't count your losses
Is sand not considered a nuisance anymore?
No longer a problem now that you're not bombarded by it
Like all of the people that left
All of them who you never agreed with
With coke are you just obsessed?
because for coke's own comparison
It's the best you'll get compared to the others
Like Pepsis here are disgusting
Why do you like what you do?
What are your reasons?
Was card board important because that's what you'd build forts of
Or slide down the mountain side with it
Cardboard hold more memories than you'd expect
If you can remember the cardboard drive in movies you'd pull up in
Was the microwaveable popcorn for the drive in movies?
Well I guess it could always be for that too
But was it more like the pop tarts
Too expensive to get there so you'd ship it back with you
Wreck it Ralph is a Disney movie right?
Hah I remember watching that, not the best movie
Wait you like it
Because it reminds you of camping trips without trees
And how about those back alleys?
Do they remind you of the good old days
Running around your neighborhoods in delight
You'd run around with water soaked clothes and dry with the sun's light
Why do you like what you do?
What are your reasons?
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