The Cover Story

Lxe
Gone to sleep, music box to smell a hint,
but the key objective is "nothing salient",
all to avoid looking like an alien
or else the assignment's rolled up invariantly.
Who will then spare the effort valiant
to trace the supply line of radioelements?
The life of a spy is misery and worry;
unfortunate, hungry, angry, that's my cover story.

What's unbeatenly detrimental
is the demand to be sentimental,
pull up the blanket in my cozy kennel
and spend evenings watching Discovery Channel.
However chances are incidental
to build a huge piggy bank in my rental.
The life of a spy lacks luxury and glory;
unfortunate, hungry, angry, that's my cover story.

One day you may learn in the bottom line
who's been your companion at wasting time,
who joined your hangouts, attended your poker nights,
and we will remember the summer of sixty-nine.
Until then I'm serving my regular nine to five
or face a hot seat or a federal jail for life.
No leak is small enough to easily ignore it;
unfortunate, hungry, angry, that's my cover story.


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