Aloysius wishes there weren't dishes in the sink They've been in there for far too long, they're causing quite a stink And every day he's less and less inclined to do the task He'd Rather lie in bed and guzzle gin from his hip flask Pretty Polly polishes the silver on the shelf No one in the house will help, she does it all herself And as the days press onward and the weeks turn into years She keeps that silver shining and neglects her hopes and fears I'd like to run away from here, I'd like for you to come No time for lallygagging as we flee the pandemonium I'd love to fly away from here, I'd love to take a ride We'll leap aboard the speeding train and brush the world aside Every day I'll check the news, every day it's all the same Another muder, rape, or death - I needn't know the name Another hurricane or tale of military raid And I wonder how a man can think when he's so goddamn afraid I had a dream the other night, the world was all ablaze Washington to Tokyo was in a fiery haze And as the earth went up in flames, the people looked around And saw for once when all was gone that love was still abound
You need to take this to a spoken word contest... very slam poetry style, very good rhythm, excellent. Oh, time to shine the silver, later. thanks for sharing. Vetty
Excellent! And, Clever! Did it just flow out of you, like you were being fed the words, or, did you sit and work at it, crafting each and every line?
i came up with the first line in a literature class - everyone was writing a line for a giant, nonsensical poem. it just popped into my head, and the rest poured out. the third verse is a chorus and is read a bit differently (though it is written in the same meter..) most of my other poems are more meticulously crafted, but i love flow and simple rhymes of this one...
i live in austin, so this would definitely be a possibility... please, whatever you do, don't forget your hopes. the fears are neglect-able. ho ho ho...
I like this poem a lot. Nice rhythm. The third stanza is the one that speaks to me the most. We needn't know the names... Sad but true in our media controlled world. Good writing. Peace, A.
i find myself watching news and asking myself "why do i need to know this?" al it does is spread fear and negative energy...
That's why I don't own a TV. I stopped buying newspapers also a few years abo after I realised how controlled our views of the world are by huge multi-national media corporations. I remember during the Rwanda massacres, the only National evening paper in Ireland ran with the front page headline "Pope breaks leg in bathroom fall." while in a small column on page seven they printed the news that there were almost 500,000 dead in African massacres. I mean WTF?
yep. we have no cable or tv in our bedroom. we use the living room tv for football, dvds and video games. but i still end up reading a lot of news while surfing the web. some of it's useful, and some of it is just unnecessary.
