Crazy-amazing IMO mock Judy Garland song lyric

[Larry Kart]

from playwright-poet Robert Patrick -- "Kennedy's Children," etc. (don't know if it has music, but one can pretty much imagine how that music would go):

JUDY'S LAST SONG

(written by me long before Stonewall)

I'm gonna try to kill myself with this song, baby.

I'll bust a gut if I just hit the right note wrong, baby.

I've listened to Doris Day,

Hoping to clog up my veins.

Sung the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe

But that last out-of-breath note

Wasn't my death note.

I've read lots of Charles Schulz, but I'm living still, baby.

I've gotten no results from pill after pill, baby.

You've broken a hole in my heart.

Fay Wray has turned into King Kong.

And I can't any longer thrill myself,

I'm feeling a little bit ill myself,

So I'm crying

And trying

To kill myself with this sooooooong!

[BruceH]

It does pinpoint and send up that over-emotive style she had, particularly late in her career, that just seemed bizarre to people of my generation.

[Pete C]

Killing Me Softly is still killing me slowly.