The Hook's A Bust

(Sung to "The Look of Love")

The hook's a bust,

it sometimes lies,

the hook says things

we despise.

The hook's a bust--

conveying so much more

than intentions mean to say--

entailment can make statements

with a sequitur of nay--

antecedents full of falsehood,

consequents no more good--

truth-functional meaning

cannot capture what is

all that is conditioned--

you know the hook's a bust

upon its face,

the hook implies

what's not the case--

benign, if right,

but oh so wrong if its "then"

conflicts with protasis--

examples counter to sense

are multiplicit--

antecedents full of falsehood,

consequents no more good--

truth-functional meaning

cannot capture what is

all that is conditioned--

artificial!

artificial!