Lois Lane (with apologies to Sir Paul McCartney)

By Lynn S. M. <lois_and_clark_fan_at_verizon.net (Replace_at_with@)>

Rated: G

Submitted September 2015

Summary: A filk based on the song “Penny Lane.”

Story Size: 295 words (2Kb as text)

Disclaimers: The original song belongs to some or all of the Beatles and/or their estates. I am borrowing them for a little not-for-profit fun. Y’all know already that all Superman characters belong to DC Comics and Warner Bros. Ditto about borrowing.

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By Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen’s taking photographs

Of every head he’s had the pleasure to know,

And all the people that come and go

Stop and say, “hello.”

On the corner is a hero with no motorcar,

And little children all recognize his shape.

And the hero always wears a cape

In the pouring rain, very strange.

Lois Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

There amidst the blue and urban skies

I float and meanwhile back

In his office there’s a newsman with some paava leaves

And on his wall there is a portrait of The King

He likes to keep his newspaper clean

He likes clean writing.

Lois Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

Beloved as Martha Kent’s rhubarb pies

In summer. Meanwhile back

Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout

An informant’s eating breakfast from a tray

And though he feels as if he’s in a play

He is anyway.

Lois Lane types up another article.

We see Jimmy stare at Cat with a grin,

And then Clark Kent rushes in

From the pouring rain, very strange.

Lois Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

There amid the blue and urban skies

I sit, and meanwhile back.

Lois Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

There amid the blue and urban skies.

Lois Lane!

THE END

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Lois Lane (with apologies to Sir Paul McCartney)