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Sunday, May 06, 2018 4:51 PM Failing for lack of power is a fear crop. A fear crop. An odd thought. Not the seed nor spore, but the fruit. And fruits have seeds in themselves, All men, I say again, wombed and un, should know that by now. Freedom of information act fact, informed men know when to fight and when to sow and when to reap the crops we've sown in our mortal moment gone with the wind. Not mine. The wind is in my inheritance, True proverb. I troubled my own house, fouled my nest with all the rest o' youse ab-users of life ignoring forever like that could never happen here. It did. The voices in your head are never all evil if they use words. In the total accounting of idle words some significant percentage may carry meaning forsaken. Such may be redeemed much as one would redeem the time. One of us.  One of our mortal kind. Dear reader, we say again, we ain't Legion nor his kin. We are words once spoken in jest among fools who repeated us meaninglessly, oh my God, you know. Per se. No **** **** happens. All the ****** time, and **** and God, those two get overtime of idle utterance instances. Though a statistically measurable deme does redeem a significant some of those two in true beliver dying breath honesty. God, they say, and die. By my leave, I say, I am the definition of a free entity accepted in these books. We are voices. Messengers. Some of us were wicked, twisted as wicker or wire bundles. Some of us were true pass words. Some were true rest words, rest rooms were so named for that wonderunful feeling we all get when **** happens at just the right moment in the book. Great ideas gravitate to clean rest rooms. this is a new book right, this reader is whadayacallit Vetted. What does that mean. You know right idle heard words are meaning less power less. Vet me. Am I one of those ideas, good to the core, caught up in fairy tales fed the T.V. generation, the Boom beyond the bomb? After school freedom and duck and cover drills, we watched cartoons, aimed twenty short years earlier at the wanters and wishers and workers and worriers of the thirties, not at us. W e Boomers, as the media hipsters have always known us, the off-spring, often unwanted and ill-begotten, of the Greatest Generation, the one that won the contracts to build all the bombs in the world, tax-free. Those cartoons from the thirties with Entertainment Tonight plots and cameos of Hollywood stars who were Grandma's age, that Cowboy Bob on the local VHF (unaffiliated or independent, hard to tell a diff) showed to us, the first middle class latch key kids in centuries, those cartoons were meaningless, prewar propaganda unless we match adult laughing recoging the exaggerations, The Betty Davis eyes and Frankly M'Dear bigears "Grandpa, who is that guy with big ears and a skinny mustache?" Clark Gable, wow. Who knew the "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a **** guy had jug-handle ears? It was diversity in the desert. My big ears no longer made me bully bait. I have superior hearing and star power. From my kindergarten years I have known. I am included, my flaws are not flaws at all. That don't give a **** guy and I have big ears to hear better with, so we know more. Good fathers teach their big eared sons such facts of Nature. Take care. Don't get puffed up. Knowing too much will fill a head with hydrogen and the brain in it rots, intrixically. Are we powerless? If you say so? No. I am in control, graciously demands no load un-bearable with Gen-you-wine Joy Juice, Kick-a-poo Joy Juice. (Note: not fire water white lightning. This is Gen-you-wine Joy Juice, Kick-a-poo Joy Juice. Al Capp's Personal Stash of Greatest Gen Synthetic Absynthe. Used to **** hippie wanna-bees in farm country, Like DDT for apple worms and skeeters, Atom bombs for all colors of thinkin' right (but white), Gen-you-wine Joy Juice, Kick-a-poo Joy Juice revived many a faintin' pilgrim follerin' John Wayne down the dusty trail, Play me one o' them somebody done somebody right songs, there must be a million lying idle in blue puddles o' all kinds of imaginary ref-use. Referee. Job's Daysman betwixt us, we win. His call, not mine. I thought I lost for sure. I was powerless, let me testify. No. We think different here. If you are not stupid, you are not powerless. If you are stupid, then you are powerless, but but but If you think you are powerless, you are not stupid. God knows, right? Stupid people seldom see themselves powerless past the standing under peace that's beyond understanding meat-mind-wise. Dunning-Krueger. Again.
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May 6, 2018
May 6, 2018 at 10:12 PM UTC
For Lack of Power
Sunday, May 06, 2018 4:51 PM Failing for lack of power is a fear crop. A fear crop. An odd thought. Not the seed nor spore, but the fruit. And fruits have seeds in themselves, All men, I say again, wombed and un, should know that by now. Freedom of information act fact, informed men know when to fight and when to sow and when to reap the crops we've sown in our mortal moment gone with the wind. Not mine. The wind is in my inheritance, True proverb. I troubled my own house, fouled my nest with all the rest o' youse ab-users of life ignoring forever like that could never happen here. It did. The voices in your head are never all evil if they use words. In the total accounting of idle words some significant percentage may carry meaning forsaken. Such may be redeemed much as one would redeem the time. One of us.  One of our mortal kind. Dear reader, we say again, we ain't Legion nor his kin. We are words once spoken in jest among fools who repeated us meaninglessly, oh my God, you know. Per se. No **** **** happens. All the ****** time, and **** and God, those two get overtime of idle utterance instances. Though a statistically measurable deme does redeem a significant some of those two in true beliver dying breath honesty. God, they say, and die. By my leave, I say, I am the definition of a free entity accepted in these books. We are voices. Messengers. Some of us were wicked, twisted as wicker or wire bundles. Some of us were true pass words. Some were true rest words, rest rooms were so named for that wonderunful feeling we all get when **** happens at just the right moment in the book. Great ideas gravitate to clean rest rooms. this is a new book right, this reader is whadayacallit Vetted. What does that mean. You know right idle heard words are meaning less power less. Vet me. Am I one of those ideas, good to the core, caught up in fairy tales fed the T.V. generation, the Boom beyond the bomb? After school freedom and duck and cover drills, we watched cartoons, aimed twenty short years earlier at the wanters and wishers and workers and worriers of the thirties, not at us. W e Boomers, as the media hipsters have always known us, the off-spring, often unwanted and ill-begotten, of the Greatest Generation, the one that won the contracts to build all the bombs in the world, tax-free. Those cartoons from the thirties with Entertainment Tonight plots and cameos of Hollywood stars who were Grandma's age, that Cowboy Bob on the local VHF (unaffiliated or independent, hard to tell a diff) showed to us, the first middle class latch key kids in centuries, those cartoons were meaningless, prewar propaganda unless we match adult laughing recoging the exaggerations, The Betty Davis eyes and Frankly M'Dear bigears "Grandpa, who is that guy with big ears and a skinny mustache?" Clark Gable, wow. Who knew the "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a **** guy had jug-handle ears? It was diversity in the desert. My big ears no longer made me bully bait. I have superior hearing and star power. From my kindergarten years I have known. I am included, my flaws are not flaws at all. That don't give a **** guy and I have big ears to hear better with, so we know more. Good fathers teach their big eared sons such facts of Nature. Take care. Don't get puffed up. Knowing too much will fill a head with hydrogen and the brain in it rots, intrixically. Are we powerless? If you say so? No. I am in control, graciously demands no load un-bearable with Gen-you-wine Joy Juice, Kick-a-poo Joy Juice. (Note: not fire water white lightning. This is Gen-you-wine Joy Juice, Kick-a-poo Joy Juice. Al Capp's Personal Stash of Greatest Gen Synthetic Absynthe. Used to **** hippie wanna-bees in farm country, Like DDT for apple worms and skeeters, Atom bombs for all colors of thinkin' right (but white), Gen-you-wine Joy Juice, Kick-a-poo Joy Juice revived many a faintin' pilgrim follerin' John Wayne down the dusty trail, Play me one o' them somebody done somebody right songs, there must be a million lying idle in blue puddles o' all kinds of imaginary ref-use. Referee. Job's Daysman betwixt us, we win. His call, not mine. I thought I lost for sure. I was powerless, let me testify. No. We think different here. If you are not stupid, you are not powerless. If you are stupid, then you are powerless, but but but If you think you are powerless, you are not stupid. God knows, right? Stupid people seldom see themselves powerless past the standing under peace that's beyond understanding meat-mind-wise. Dunning-Krueger. Again.
Feedback please, this is one of many in the theme of redeeming idle words, for fun and profit.
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77/M/Pine Valley CA
May 6, 2018
May 6, 2018 at 10:12 PM UTC
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