The Butterfly Effect - Song #13

The Butterfly Effect by Rich Baker

When a small butterfly flew thru the sky
A small patch of air pushed away
It blew in a frog’s eye and then the eye got dry
Much to frog’s dismay

Distracted by this, the frog must’ve missed
The tasty fly going by
So it wasn’t eaten and just went on being
A regular foresty fly.

Just past a pond it landed on
An angry wolf’s jowl
The wolf shook its face to make the fly go away
The wolf then let out a growl

Another wolf to his right opened his eyes
He was asleep up til now
He was perturbed, b/c his snooze was disturbed
So he let out a howl

Hearing the wolf cry from up on the sky
An owl was flying past
The owl flew with ease over the trees
And she was moving quite fast

A mouse in the dirt afraid to get hurt
Tried to stay out of the light
So, it dug a hole bumped into a mole
And ran back into the night

As the mouse ran he began
To feel the warmth from ahead
There so inspired was a camp fire
A human was making a bed

The man had a sleeping bag
He would sleep under the stars
The mouse ran by. The man jumped high
And he jumped back in his car

Deciding not to camp there was the man
Driving to a hotel instead
He got a key then went to sleep
Comfy on a king bed

When he got that room the hotel now was full
No more rooms to be had
The hotel clerk who hated to work
Decided to take a nap

The front desk phone rang, but this didn’t change
The snoring employee
The guy calling the phone was starting to groan
He was calling to get something to eat.

With no answer at all to his phone call
The man didn’t know what to do
Not in a good mood just wanting food
His hunger grew and grew

The man was unfed, but he went to bed
Awoke the next day with an angry face
So hungry by now he could eat a cow
He went down to the donut place

He ordered a dozen straight from the oven
Ate them on the way to his meeting
He was happy to share with the people there
What a pleasant greeting

The meeting went well, everyone swell
All were getting a long
As it let out a lady had found
That she was humming a song

She hummed it all day and along the way
Another man heard her humming
The tune got stuck in his brain as he got on a plane
He noticed his fingers were drumming

He drummed with his feet and his hands on the seat
Keeping a nice rhythm
The girl next to him felt the rhythm
And she drummed a long with him

As the plane landed the girl handed
The man her business card
And she hand wrote a line, “call me anytime”
The held that in regard

The girl drove back to Fon Du Lac
Up in the state of Wisonsin
A week went by. She started to cry.
The man never called like she wanted.

Still wanting to sob she went to her job
Down at the local library
She was quite upset right at her desk
Eating on machino cherries.

Normally happy, now kind of sappy
The lady stared at the wall
For a long while she would not smile
Wanting to forget it all

A boy of just twelve went to ask for some help
Hoping to get some advice
He went up to the counter her crying got louder
She would look in his eyes

The boy walked away unsure what to say
So he walked out the library door
Stuck in a lurch, he’d done no research
He was information poor

So, now I hope you see the scope
Of all the crazy events
The boy could not get what he needed
To complete the homework assignment

As you can see, that boy was me
I hope my tale wasn’t too dreary
And all that is why someone as diligent as I
Couldn’t do my paper on Chaos Theory