Tenants

So much the worse for the wear
Tenants of bodies so spent
By tariff and by trade
By syntax and cliché
Yet periodically possessed
By pricks of conscience and sophists
Who profess the way of all flesh
So much the worse for the wear
Drafting treaties, prepared statements
Singing lines beneath binding phrases
A new lease on life
A new lease on life
A new lease on life
Before the word
Before the world