Rut - ON WRITING AND RUNNING

I feel as if I’m in a rut
just writing greeting card verses
I’m generating sappy words
and eliciting lots of curses
The meter is too singsong,
the rhymes seem very trite
The words all seem the same
‘cause I’m really not that bright
The rut keeps getting deeper
and the mind is getting dimmer
The chances of avoiding tedium
appear to be getting slimmer
The phrases are fairly ludicrous
and the verses seem quite lame
I’ll take my pen and paper,
and hide my head in shame