"The Little Book of Lance"
As the Little Book of Lance comes out
No braggadocio for me
The self-promotional spout and shout
That do-si-do of vanity
Strikes me as base buffoonery
But celebrating inwardly
Quietly then this book will become
In transcendental victory
My handbook and my vade mecum
When I go out I can show it to
Friends when I meet them and maybe you
In the way my mother taught me
Modestly and with dignity
And may the arrogant relent
If I have seemed so I repent
Pride has chased but has not caught me
For first and last I am but dust
Though I could never tell you why
I write my life down since I must
I live I write and then I die
To give The Little Book of Lance a chance
+Steven Curtis Lance