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When dreams had dirt

The writer is

 

                                                              bound by the Oedipus

                                          cauldron stewing          can't relax

 

                          --all women are mine--

                                                                 but this doesn't stop the bloating bubbles.

 

                     But the writer did not invent Wonderlandia

               --no double-sided tape or wrong number or sloppy poetics.

 

                              Wonderlandia was born from the ***** of the stars

                                                         --our fathers,

                              and the void of space,

                                                     --our mother's womb.

the writer

                                             was busy staring at the girls that walked by

                                        ditch diggers for renovations on Euphoria.

                The hippies are disappointed in this current Wonderlandia,

   or they would be.

 

                               Their dreams had dirt in the mud,

                they walked upon.                Our Woodstock

                                                                is celebrity interviews,

                                                                reservations failing,

                                                                political satires--the last ring of change

             sold at five cents a word. Period.

 

the writer

                                        says it understands and writes:

                      "Sticks shaped from elitism

                        rare.

                        Usually a vibe too brittle,

                        breaking in battle.

                        The bass thundered robins.

                        The snare's firearm stabled the swift,

                        electrifying beat.

                        The brass was addiction

                        to the crowd's ears.

                        All before the elitism was born,

                        a symphony was constructed in the drug's head."

 

the writer

                                knows about D. A. Levy and his revolution,

                  we all felt that voice, so the writer replies:

                               "Did you hear about the John Lennon poser

                                 waving his gun on TV?

                                 While listening to the Beatles, you

                                 sit and watch the vagabond cry.

                                 He says, "Counter-culture is dead, entombed

                                 in a metal casket.

                                 We need a new flame. Those watching TV

                                 get your hands out of the basket."

 

the writer

walks with grandma Alice

by lakes,

thrilling dementia

"Don't tell me what taurine

and caffeine can do to my heart.

I can have alligators in my rib meat

eating away at bone marrow.

 

High? That's your question?

Hi...I am a float

in a useless pond

bordered by malnourished trees.

 

By the love of hell you better not

fertilize those ****** trees

because if I die

the alligator of my ribs

will dine and take your ****

girlfriend straight to the vet.

I thank you for asking though."

 

the writer misses

the syrup in the tree completely

I am not your beatnik

or future idol--burn your 1970's classrooms away.

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joseph-s-c-pope
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Mar 6, 2013
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