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"boomer" poems
I’m sick of hearing my life’s a haiku. I’m into magic, love, and other sorts of things that are typically voodoo. I’m half ***** from a half assed absent African baby boomer brat. I’m half white trash. Here’s a well formed of dried tears turned into something to sooth my canine teeth. It tastes like Moonshine. I can’t swim anymore, so I’m here drowning in a concrete pool. Always, I look for the hell in you. I sharpen my boot knife for ****** assault protection. The first swipes for the plus 200,000 in counting. The seconds for the 66 percent underreported. The lasts for me, the 29 percent victims aged 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, and 12. We have a higher rate of risking everything. For depression x3. For committing suicide x4. For post traumatic stress disorder x6. For alcohol abuse x13. For drug abuse x26. You all think I’m crazy, I’m not. I sometimes get called stupid, ugly, ***** and thot. I’m in pain, in sorrow. I can’t help it. He did it. No one can undo it. What do we do about it? I wont scream, I won't cry. I’ll ask how he’s doing with glitter and tears in the corner of my eye. And after he's done molesting me, "Want to go grab some coffee or tea?" Personally, I like the cafe down the street. They sell good brunch with amazing croissants. And after this is over, I’d ask him how it was while he turned me over.
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 12:11 PM UTC
//Modest Proposal
Muelle de Binondo Street, Barangay San Nicolas, Old Manila. My dad's fate Will always be muddled With nostalgia: The mid-afternoon Traffic of fruit vendors, The toothless strains Of my grandfather's voice, Bouncing off The warehouse walls Like folding cardboard, The ceramic gallops of horse- Drawn kalesas taking him From school to My grandfather's offices, Every day and back, Up and down The cardboard box river To Tondo. There, he hurriedly Buys ten Asado buns From a stall across the Street from their School - a voracious Schoolboy Forever late for class, forever Putting on basketball jerseys Too wide for him, Basketball shorts too Short; body Always too gangly, Too long-limbed, wide eyed And fleet footed For his dreams to catch. He once could dunk. He is still a baby boomer - Scared of firecrackers, Weird penchant For popped collar shirts, Pointed shoes, and Sequins - he, was an avid Lover of stars - his old Dust-strewn bed posts Giving way, I imagine, To iron bars caging The luminous starry night, Floating high above The sewage And the freight trucks That weigh him so. They sang to him. In the tune of My mother's voice - The only album He ever possessed. Song set from His favorite band. "Apo Hiking Society." His favorite word, Was "leap." A disciple Of MJ, Dr. J, And Magic, Samboy, and Jawo, Icarus on hardwood And leaping From the free throw line. "Son," he once told me, "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." He was always afraid of heights. It wasn't until 41 that We made him ride a roller-coaster, That he had even seen a roller-coaster. "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." I think my favorite Memory of my dad Is still him wringing my fingers At Space Mountain with Eyes so tightly shut That we forgot Our fears, And screamed instead: So. This, Is how the stars look like When unbolted By folding cardboard, And iron bars.
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Mar 22, 2015
Mar 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM UTC
Dad
Muelle de Binondo Street, Barangay San Nicolas, Old Manila. My dad's fate Will always be muddled With nostalgia: The mid-afternoon Traffic of fruit vendors, The toothless strains Of my grandfather's voice, Bouncing off The warehouse walls Like folding cardboard, The ceramic gallops of horse- Drawn kalesas taking him From school to My grandfather's offices, Every day and back, Up and down The cardboard box river To Tondo. There, he hurriedly Buys ten Asado buns From a stall across the Street from their School - a voracious Schoolboy Forever late for class, forever Putting on basketball jerseys Too wide for him, Basketball shorts too Short; body Always too gangly, Too long-limbed, wide eyed And fleet footed For his dreams to catch. He once could dunk. He is still a baby boomer - Scared of firecrackers, Weird penchant For popped collar shirts, Pointed shoes, and Sequins - he, was an avid Lover of stars - his old Dust-strewn bed posts Giving way, I imagine, To iron bars caging The luminous starry night, Floating high above The sewage And the freight trucks That weigh him so. They sang to him. In the tune of My mother's voice - The only album He ever possessed. Song set from His favorite band. "Apo Hiking Society." His favorite word, Was "leap." A disciple Of MJ, Dr. J, And Magic, Samboy, and Jawo, Icarus on hardwood And leaping From the free throw line. "Son," he once told me, "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." He was always afraid of heights. It wasn't until 41 that We made him ride a roller-coaster, That he had even seen a roller-coaster. "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." I think my favorite Memory of my dad Is still him wringing my fingers At Space Mountain with Eyes so tightly shut That we forgot Our fears, And screamed instead: So. This, Is how the stars look like When unbolted By folding cardboard, And iron bars.
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There is ***** for sale and wombs for rent For same *** couples it’s cash well spent. While heterosexuals breed their own Gay couples, as yet, cannot clone. A lesbian couple who had the itch is suing their ***** bank for “bait and switch”. They wanted a Caucasian baby and had requested ***** from vial “380”. The donor of that ***** was white, Handsome, smart, just “not their type” They were given another’s ***** instead And an interracial child was bred. It seems they were given vial “330” The vials, it seems, were marked unclearly. An honest mistake by a nearsighted boomer?- or one with a twisted sense of humor? A civil suit will go to trial seeking damages for a mixed race child. If their motion to dismiss should meet denial The “bank” will suffer premature withdrawal. In which event bankruptcy looms For the bank that supplies the ***** for wombs.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 7:33 AM UTC
***** bank Lawsuit
For every aging boomer there are one or two they've known: Heroes of the battlefield Who never made it home. Some classmate who was butchered in a fire fight in “Nam. A sibling who had perished in the standoff at Khe Sanh. Perhaps the Tet offensive left some friend's blood spilled and spent. Politicians speak of glory- It’s the grunts who pay the rent From the walls of Hue to Can Ranh Bay from Tonkin to Saigon. there is a wall in Washington with their names inscribed thereon. The lucky ones who did come home recall the name and face of some heroic eighteen year old who perished in their place.
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Nov 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM UTC
Woodstock Generation/Memorial Day
For every aging boomer There are one or two they've known: Heroes of the battlefield Who never made it home. Some classmate who was butchered in a fire fight in “Nam. A sibling who had perished in the standoff at Khe Sanh. Perhaps the Tet offensive left some friend's blood spilled and spent. Politicians speak of glory- It’s the grunts who pay the rent From the walls of Hue to Cam ranh Bay from Tonkin to Saigon. there is a wall in Washington with their names inscribed thereon. The lucky ones who did come home Recall the name and face of some heroic eighteen year old who perished in their place.
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May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 at 9:52 PM UTC
Woodstock Generation/Memorial Day
My name is Boomer and I'm a Beagle Sometimes I'm clumsy, sometimes I'm regal... I like to run, sniff, eat, and play. I have lots of energy to do this all day.. We have great sniffers because we are hounds. We also can make a few different sounds... Pointed to the sky is our tail. Hoisted straight up just like a sail.. The white on the end, is called a flag. When not standing up, its going to wag...
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 6:58 PM UTC
Regal Beagle
Quietly... a new future races past my attention. As thin as, a liberals funding chased by an old and toothless past. Slipping changes by... in bite sized pieces now so regularly that some pass ... barely tasted.... almost inhaled. Tides of modern history are beating rhythmically on ugly worn out barriers affecting all, both near and far As bright and untouchable as the new moon. The looming certainty of... what now seems inevitable. Lingers... not quite accepting it's progression and now is both... dragging it's feet... and clumsily rushing over what's left of ancient weights... that lay so heavy... so long....' Equality and Justice are hummed to and called forth... to not simply usher in a few changes... but navigate the floodgates of what our world now dare to dream of... The last of the Boomer's are having their say and the idealistic. psychedelic, poets and builders dream through a "stoney" mist and contemplate next season's crops and the affect they may have on moral turpitude. Finally.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 9:38 PM UTC
Next Season's Crops
you say It’s not all the same and i’m paralyzed *What. I want to fix it" but there is no kicking because broken things don’t move so easily. anymore. circular arguments (not to be confused with logic) wrap fishing line around my fetal knees and What is your bullet/ flaccid arrow/ boomer-anger. and either I’m diabetic or your insecurity ankle bracelet tightens. and the key The key.
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Dec 13, 2011
Dec 13, 2011 at 9:28 AM UTC
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Us hippies and straights from the baby boomer generation grew up with two great television myths which determined how we turned out and they are "The Wizard Of Oz" and "Peter Pan" and every year as we grew up they were the TV events on Sunday night so as we got older we went to Oz like on LSD and stuff and realized that we wanted to go back to Kansas but like Peter Pan we didn't want to grow up so we didn't so here am I, an old baby boomer, back at his childhood home in Kansas, Michigan and I still refuse to grow up. I wish I could fly.
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Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 5:06 PM UTC
The Two Great Baby Boomer Myths
Words, words, words, but powerful, they dig deep into a boy's mind and become the standard he comes to measure himself by, who he is, who he must be, must live up to. Real men never cry. Real men never cry. Never, ever hit a girl no matter what. Bullies are all ****** little cowards. Never back down. Never back down. Always demand the most of yourself. Never blame anyone else if you fail. Never back down. Never back down. Play fair but play to win. Show no mercy, take no prisoners, have no regrets, never complain. Never back down. Never back down. Be a man. Be a man. Be a man. Be a man. Real men never cry. Real men never cry. Pain makes you stronger. Life's not fair. Don't be a baby. Stop acting like a girl. Be a man. Be a man. Be a man. Be a man. **** it up. It doesn't hurt. Be tough. Nice guys finish last. Shed no tears. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Be a man. Be a man. Be a man. Be a man. Real men never cry. Real men never cry. We believed deeply in all this **** and when the time came, took it to war. Very little made it back to the world. ~mce
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 7:21 PM UTC
A Boomer Boyhood - What We Learned
We are a generation, Indeed, a nation, Raised upon foreign warring. Scapegoat aggravation. Bushes and ***** Clamoring for horror and hoarding. Conspiring against a population, I watch through youthful aging. With my childlike eyes, I see The target they're blaming: Afghan families having more in common with me, Working class American, Than those transparent heirs With the world's wealth and arrogance, Ordering for the villagers' obliteration Through boys from our nation. We are a generation raised On media sensation Of militarized devastation; Animal exploitation; Technological manifestations Providing privacy infiltration. Material attainments; Mental frustrations; Fiat debt enslavement; A nation entranced by Senseless parading. Tempting decadence and Announcements with no evidence. The September bounty of edifice That fell with no hesitance Still echo its unfounded, Preemptive pretenses. This murderous reign; this senseless parade; Advertisement cyclical in their game of charades; Dog on a chain; Famine causing no pain. Permissible opinions To be solely maintained. The damage, the waste, The heinous race and class chase. Oppression remains thoughtlessly dangerous, As moral responsibility brings no attainments. Chowing down on maimed millions Bellowing from enslavement. Fortunately, elder, Rothschild, Rockefeller, or Those above them whom Remain blackened, faceless: Resistance shall come From all places, all ages. Such as this generation of mine Inheriting increasing complications, With the type of America You wish to keep in rotation. I'll carry the flag containing Your mistakes as a symbol, To remind those behind me What not to rekindle. To the Boomer who stews In your white collar suit, Still refusing to shake Your destructive pursuit, Still asking me to lick Off authority's boot: Growing up in this nation, With childhood innocence, I grew increasingly aware Of the land of such ignorance. I had such thoughts since Early adolescence, I was not blind to larger lessons. Only since supported by Actual, factual supported confessions. To the Boomer tied to his convictions, Now will you see- That isn't going to work For us or for me. I'll bring to this world Whatever I please. Which so happens to be Truth, justice, and peace.
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Aug 9, 2016
Aug 9, 2016 at 1:20 AM UTC
Growing up Dicked
We are a generation, Indeed, a nation, Raised upon foreign warring. Scapegoat aggravation. Bushes and ***** Clamoring for horror and hoarding. Conspiring against a population, I watch through youthful aging. With my childlike eyes, I see The target they're blaming: Afghan families having more in common with me, Working class American, Than those transparent heirs With the world's wealth and arrogance, Ordering for the villagers' obliteration Through boys from our nation. We are a generation raised On media sensation Of militarized devastation; Animal exploitation; Technological manifestations Providing privacy infiltration. Material attainments; Mental frustrations; Fiat debt enslavement; A nation entranced by Senseless parading. Tempting decadence and Announcements with no evidence. The September bounty of edifice That fell with no hesitance Still echo its unfounded, Preemptive pretenses. This murderous reign; this senseless parade; Advertisement cyclical in their game of charades; Dog on a chain; Famine causing no pain. Permissible opinions To be solely maintained. The damage, the waste, The heinous race and class chase. Oppression remains thoughtlessly dangerous, As moral responsibility brings no attainments. Chowing down on maimed millions Bellowing from enslavement. Fortunately, elder, Rothschild, Rockefeller, or Those above them whom Remain blackened, faceless: Resistance shall come From all places, all ages. Such as this generation of mine Inheriting increasing complications, With the type of America You wish to keep in rotation. I'll carry the flag containing Your mistakes as a symbol, To remind those behind me What not to rekindle. To the Boomer who stews In your white collar suit, Still refusing to shake Your destructive pursuit, Still asking me to lick Off authority's boot: Growing up in this nation, With childhood innocence, I grew increasingly aware Of the land of such ignorance. I had such thoughts since Early adolescence, I was not blind to larger lessons. Only since supported by Actual, factual supported confessions. To the Boomer tied to his convictions, Now will you see- That isn't going to work For us or for me. I'll bring to this world Whatever I please. Which so happens to be Truth, justice, and peace.
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Petri dish children run with punctured neon green veins Raised in focus groups with the touch of a hungry CEO Who will sell your youth for another car to drive Built from the dust of a baby boomer cabbage patch Poked and prodded by the media of a society flamed with consumerism Where your loosely draped skeleton frame has no more weight than the quarters you tuck in your pockets at weigh ins Sunken eyes and sideways grins Little girls are growing up to kiss the bad boys Tequila soaked, beautiful kisses Where your idol is a crack ***** beauty queen Where your every fatal flaw has a rememdy and a price tag A generation sick with drinks Plagued by impulse and energy pulsing in tides With ****** laughs and magnetic orbits What ever happened to the petri dish children Built for beauty and style, but left broken and stunning
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 8:05 PM UTC
❂ Petri Dish Children ❂
Baby boomer farmers tailgating Carolina red apples ... Engaged in whittling , rocking beside a powder blue Dodge pickup .. Mother hens in white aprons selling cocoanut cakes and peanut brittle . Bluegrass pickers drawing a small crowd , children feasting on corn dogs with Rock candy tucked away in their shirts ... Funnel cake fragrance on joyous September nights ...
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Mar 3, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 at 10:03 PM UTC
County Fair Fridays ...
Those Lips I was sitting in a booth at Boomer's coffee shop, it was two a.m. And I was ready to drop, working my *** off, Just trying to get ahead, but going in circles, it's going to my head sitting here sipping a cup of Cafe' LaWut, pulling drags off a stale cigarette **** in walks this redhead, long legs and all, set me straight up, hit my head on the wall long red hair all the way down her back, near 6 foot tall, with quite a stack, legs from the bottom, all the way to the top, could feel my bottom jaw start to drop looking like a dork couldn't help but stare, think to myself, she's not wearing underwear. bright green eyes that sparkled like stars, and here I am looking, like a creature from Mars but she looked my way, gave a wink and a smile, she must be crazy, or been drinking a while, her cute pug nose fit her face just right, I could look at her for the rest of the night the thing I noticed most out of all this charm, long hair, long legs, a smile so warm, killer eyes, perfect teeth and shapely hips I really had this urge to kiss those lips. Gomer LePoet...
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Apr 18, 2010
Apr 18, 2010 at 9:10 PM UTC
Those Lips
Poems are born and given names like people are don't they?    vested with special brainy wings right? then ejected!  as if birthing slides help push them through a cyber time machine computerized world poems seem to travel as in rockets to space yes that fast!! Others ballooned by air in baskets moved slowlier or in simple rainbow sorted balloon batches and then gone with the wind! inflated by helium air initials inscribed on each from the parent poet or poetess "A lot more happens to poems" Lucky few reposted by the holy sages of H.P a few more seem air lifted in an eye blink secluded in mysterious arenas Jack in the box boxes! private uncirculated rooms there reveared? All poems in my world seem firstly inspected by the same compassionate doctor, few masked Knights powerful mystery kings birds of song, purring cats even angry dogs all sorts same crafty nurses seem to eagerly revise their parchment scrolls and from there nothing is heard of these baby boomer poems or if ever are read by others again who can tell? It's unclear unless a fee is paid its like having children really isnt't it? that must be sent away as in time machine missions once named treasured revised adored then freedoms grant'd some poems will make it explored reapearing loved reposted moving priceless! other poems perish by green with envy other muses hubbering curiously around lizards wizards snakes all sorts. Poems seem to travel   dead silent through a cyber mirror Twilight Zone ~~~~~~~~ By:Karijinbba.
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Jun 17, 2019
Jun 17, 2019 at 11:28 AM UTC
Poems travel to to Twighlight Zones
Poems are born and given names like people are don't they?    vested with special brainy wings right? then ejected!  as if birthing slides help push them through a cyber time machine computerized world poems seem to travel as in rockets to space yes that fast!! Others ballooned by air in baskets moved slowlier or in simple rainbow sorted balloon batches and then gone with the wind! inflated by helium air initials inscribed on each from the parent poet or poetess "A lot more happens to poems" Lucky few reposted by the holy sages of H.P a few more seem air lifted in an eye blink secluded in mysterious arenas Jack in the box boxes! private uncirculated rooms there reveared? All poems in my world seem firstly inspected by the same compassionate doctor, few masked Knights powerful mystery kings birds of song, purring cats even angry dogs all sorts same crafty nurses seem to eagerly revise their parchment scrolls and from there nothing is heard of these baby boomer poems or if ever are read by others again who can tell? It's unclear unless a fee is paid its like having children really isnt't it? that must be sent away as in time machine missions once named treasured revised adored then freedoms grant'd some poems will make it explored reapearing loved reposted moving priceless! other poems perish by green with envy other muses hubbering curiously around lizards wizards snakes all sorts. Poems seem to travel   dead silent through a cyber mirror Twilight Zone ~~~~~~~~ By:Karijinbba.
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Baby boomer that is me.. I was born in the shade, of a tree.. On a little farm as cute as can be.. This was my first home for my litter mates and me. 4 brothers and sisters plus me equals 9. I'm lucky to have this, family of mine. Mom and dad are beagle dogs too.. Being on the farm, was like living at a zoo.. Shouts the rooster.. **** a doodle dooo. Waking the farm before the early morning dew As the morning sun begins to rise.. Clouds of many shapes fill the skies... One little two little three little goats On the little pond the duck family floats.. 4 little 5 little 6 little pigs.. They watch their momma as she digs.. My sisters and brothers we get to roll and play... Mom will teach us, the safest way... We nibble each other's neck, and nose. Sometimes we bite our tails, and toes..
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 7:02 PM UTC
Baby Boomer
In my realm, any tale worth telling tells itself, backwards… this is part three under reproof inspection, we have tools some of us imagined, perhaps with prodding from what prodded Heinlein, his version of the Sixties, seen from his fifties; differs in tech to stretch the realm of possible, Artist's intuition that women's intuition was a thing by 1961, the year of the twist, if I recall Junior High, and who doesn't, eh, as seen on TV. We were there. There were those books, You were there at the battle for Bataan We were there books, 36, a kind of boomer canon in the southwest, some of us had grands who rode those trails. But the one I imagine I remembered reading, We were there at the battle for Bataan, that can be imagined as a ghost from the cemetery in Kingman, Arizona, on the actual road alluded to in rites of passage, all roads lead from the middle of nowhere, there's no destination known. Up on the point, overlooking my green valley, if I am an honest man, and I believe I am, sharp as a tack, tacky as a fly strip in a butcher shop, sticky in that ai ai ai madja look gleam meme, flash of white, no light, brigh'ness reflected from raven's wings, sure that is what Castaneda saw, no wu wu needed, once the plant impresses your kindness, adsorb absorb soak seep, sniff wonder, if we may imagine and we do not, we are as the being who may read and does not. Or the reader who may write and wishes to be known for the worth of the lines in threaded time through changing times, drastic fantastic changes in time thinking medium thick syrupy, thicker, honey, honey, how could such excess be? the proverb, pre installed, tic Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee. see prophecy saying the child shall shall, not will, shall eat milk and honey until it can, not may, can sense the fine-ness of the line the veil, between useful for imaginary things, how fine the film discerned, imagine that scratched with this so fine a line, that nothing is a thought, with nullness nought, not infinite, pre- punctuality, never ceases to happen and now remains, ever.
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Oct 9, 2021
Oct 9, 2021 at 3:30 PM UTC
Part 3, third piece in fractured reflection
In my realm, any tale worth telling tells itself, backwards… this is part three under reproof inspection, we have tools some of us imagined, perhaps with prodding from what prodded Heinlein, his version of the Sixties, seen from his fifties; differs in tech to stretch the realm of possible, Artist's intuition that women's intuition was a thing by 1961, the year of the twist, if I recall Junior High, and who doesn't, eh, as seen on TV. We were there. There were those books, You were there at the battle for Bataan We were there books, 36, a kind of boomer canon in the southwest, some of us had grands who rode those trails. But the one I imagine I remembered reading, We were there at the battle for Bataan, that can be imagined as a ghost from the cemetery in Kingman, Arizona, on the actual road alluded to in rites of passage, all roads lead from the middle of nowhere, there's no destination known. Up on the point, overlooking my green valley, if I am an honest man, and I believe I am, sharp as a tack, tacky as a fly strip in a butcher shop, sticky in that ai ai ai madja look gleam meme, flash of white, no light, brigh'ness reflected from raven's wings, sure that is what Castaneda saw, no wu wu needed, once the plant impresses your kindness, adsorb absorb soak seep, sniff wonder, if we may imagine and we do not, we are as the being who may read and does not. Or the reader who may write and wishes to be known for the worth of the lines in threaded time through changing times, drastic fantastic changes in time thinking medium thick syrupy, thicker, honey, honey, how could such excess be? the proverb, pre installed, tic Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee. see prophecy saying the child shall shall, not will, shall eat milk and honey until it can, not may, can sense the fine-ness of the line the veil, between useful for imaginary things, how fine the film discerned, imagine that scratched with this so fine a line, that nothing is a thought, with nullness nought, not infinite, pre- punctuality, never ceases to happen and now remains, ever.
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At work the boss shot her mouth off with her baby boomer thoughts I missed the rainbow after the thunderstorm and what was left were fallen trees Slipped on a banana on the way to the train that got me late I went home for the night and I lit up the sky What was I mad about? People singing at the top of their lungs on the street Co-workers ask me questions I don’t know the answers to I prefer not to do what you ask me to Haunted by a ghost of someone dead from a position I now hold What do I do with these curses coming after me? The moon eclipses as the wolves come out for the night Spitting in my eye while they’re snarling Fell in a flood stepping on the wrong sidewalk I headed home and lit up a fire What was I mad about?
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 6:11 PM UTC
What was I mad about?
Mostly these days I enter a room, polka dot populated by folks with too much perfume, or none at all and presuppositions and a cold drink lingering near them. I carry a shadowy painting with me, but it’s unfinished. It’s meticulously cared for and not yet ready to receive merit, let alone garner attention or criticism of ubiquity. Mostly these days I find myself troubled walking into these galleries laden with baby boomer critical gazes, though some understand in a competent comparative fashion and look forward to seeing the end result. The saturation, and the color spectrum. Mostly these days I wander into a tavern with a short story in my arms. It’s falsehood glaring, but with truth inside the lie. It is also unfinished. And yes it’s five years in the making, and everyone gawks, and watches carefully over glassware beaded with condensation, fury during October, the lights come down a bit, and I feel better. Mostly.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 1:20 PM UTC
Mostly
A Baby-Boomer walks so freely through the town he pays no mind to those suffering around “Why don’t poor people just get jobs,” he asks himself, “And stop bellyaching? And women need to shut their mouths and stop complaining the wage gap is a fallacy they invented to work less. trust me I am a man who would understand the oppressed, a man who has always been gainfully employed, in fact if you ask me I am simply annoyed that others dare to call me privileged just because I can afford more than they do (well that and the fact that because of my face I can be sure that I will not be chased by the police unrightfully or a strange man most frighteningly).” He walks alone in the darks of night and yet his bones do not creak with fright for he knows the world respects his white skin, his wife, and the money he keeps only for him. On his wall hangs a college degree he got from a school in 1983 “I don’t understand why the millennials are such whiners pull yourself up by your bootstraps while you’re still minors, yes we ruined the economy, but it’s not that hard if you just stop focussing on being so avant-garde and get a job, who do you think you are? Just kids trying their best to be what they are? Disgusting excuse, sell your soul to businesses, it’s what Reagan would do.” As he puts his money to bed at night in the house he bought when the market was still alright he wonders why kids these days seem so tired and hungry for praise.
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Oct 3, 2015
Oct 3, 2015 at 5:01 PM UTC
The Baby-Boomers (inspired by the Canterbury Tales)
Don't just don't stand too close, what do you figure man! Don't you know there is a pandemic! I guess as far as you are concerned Big Government will help you, don't you know, they will or will not. Banking the house for winter so the pipes don't freeze. North, North America is o so cold come winter... and the slush and the salt ruining your car and your clothes. I'd like a formidable climate, a place to hang my hat. Some place so awesome you just want to plant your roots.
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Oct 30, 2021
Oct 30, 2021 at 7:06 PM UTC
Better a Boomer than a ******
Boomer was born, on a farm, from the same mom and dad.. Tho his markings, were different, then what the other siblings had.. He would see his reflection, in the pond on the farm.. The other animals would tease, tho meaning no harm.. The words he would hear were quite clear, and would attach deep in his soul.. As time went on, he would keep to himself, and would search for his roll.. He would hunt for answers, with each passing day.. And observe mother nature, and what she had to say.. The wind would howl, and sometimes growl, and sometimes barely blow.. The river would rage, and and be real deep, and often barely flow.. The trees would whistle and do a dance, to their own private song.. The grass would bend to and fro, as if to join along.. His momma told him with love in her eyes, it's good to be different and true.. The reason they tease, is quite clear, there is only one you.. So enjoy your life, be real strong, and do what puppies do... And if you're scared or alone, remember the words, I Love You....
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Aug 17, 2015
Aug 17, 2015 at 12:12 PM UTC
Reflection
He went from stone to telling me he loves me in his sleep And I couldn't look into his eyes until recently because it meant that I had to accept my own mortality Not because he's going to **** me But because I'll never truly know what's on the other side They're blue and that's all I know and it keeps me starving and satisfied and scared and safe He's my safe space. The kind that ****** off our baby boomer parents He'll call you by your preferred pronouns. He'll celebrate your womanhood. He is the painting session that's offered instead of the midterm exam My only worry with him is that my hair is frizzy and my lipstick is faded I don't even worry about his roommate hating me when I visit because of our sighing and the bed squeaking I'm at a place in my life where I wonder how high I can go at this point but if he is my anchor, the view is just fine If he is my anchor, I'm not drowning at all If he is my anchor, he'll lift me higher because he likes that I'm tall
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Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 4:07 PM UTC
safe space
The humor flies right over heads, Like leaves off trees much too overgrown. Quick to shoot and stab in darkness, Naked kitchen table manners, Plastic flaccid people actors, Vacant star shaped locket Picture frames a blackmail recipient. Forget your names for heavens sake. Preface to my new face in tastelessness, Fragrant little boomer baby.
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Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014 at 11:11 PM UTC
Day In Flux
Regret nothing and be grateful for what you are and what you have whether it is good or bad and know that wealth is not possession but enjoyment so be grateful for the people throughout your life that made you happy especially the ones who made your soul blossom as we can learn much from those who have gone before us. Don't be afraid to step off of the accepted path and head off in your own direction if your heart tells you that it is the right way to go and always believe that you will succeed at whatever you do and wherever you go because you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice that you have. Don't worry about whether your beautiful or you are ugly because by the time that we are eighty we will all look the same even after playing our little game so just hang in there and everything will be all right and try to get some sleep at night. As we go through life we learn that they can't teach you everything that you need to know in School like teaching you how love somebody with all that you have nor can they teach you how to be famous and they can't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor and most of the time they will just show you the door becasuse they will never teach you how to walk away from someone that you loved and who you thought was that someone who was sent to you from above. They don't teach you what to say to someone who is dying or teach you how to stop crying as you watch them leave or how to deal with someone's continuous lying . I've done it all starting with answering the call for my Country in a meaningless war that left me with only trying to find a door that would lead me out of my pain and I've been rich and I've been poor and all of the dead space in between and so much I have seen that I will never forget and I am still trying to find that door to my happiness. Don't judge me if you don't know a thing about my wants and needs or I will drop you to your knees because I have been knocked down so many times and left for dead by those who are not very well read but I keep getting back up because that is me and what I do better than anything so it would seem. On the down side of this wild ride of the boomer generation I try to finish out this ride as I watch so many dropping by the wayside but so many are still   waiting to just turn the page with no rage. Never regret anything that made you smile even if it only lasted for a very short while and try to remember that your happiness is all up to you. While humanity sleeps in the night all I do is write and my words and my tears have flooded Valley's without a single solitary sound but for me sometimes the Sun shines but the clouds always seem to return so I guess I'll just never learn but I do know that when knowledge speaks wisdom listens.                                      Jon York              2012
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May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012 at 5:22 AM UTC
The Final Chapter... Untitled
Regret nothing and be grateful for what you are and what you have whether it is good or bad and know that wealth is not possession but enjoyment so be grateful for the people throughout your life that made you happy especially the ones who made your soul blossom as we can learn much from those who have gone before us. Don't be afraid to step off of the accepted path and head off in your own direction if your heart tells you that it is the right way to go and always believe that you will succeed at whatever you do and wherever you go because you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice that you have. Don't worry about whether your beautiful or you are ugly because by the time that we are eighty we will all look the same even after playing our little game so just hang in there and everything will be all right and try to get some sleep at night. As we go through life we learn that they can't teach you everything that you need to know in School like teaching you how love somebody with all that you have nor can they teach you how to be famous and they can't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor and most of the time they will just show you the door becasuse they will never teach you how to walk away from someone that you loved and who you thought was that someone who was sent to you from above. They don't teach you what to say to someone who is dying or teach you how to stop crying as you watch them leave or how to deal with someone's continuous lying . I've done it all starting with answering the call for my Country in a meaningless war that left me with only trying to find a door that would lead me out of my pain and I've been rich and I've been poor and all of the dead space in between and so much I have seen that I will never forget and I am still trying to find that door to my happiness. Don't judge me if you don't know a thing about my wants and needs or I will drop you to your knees because I have been knocked down so many times and left for dead by those who are not very well read but I keep getting back up because that is me and what I do better than anything so it would seem. On the down side of this wild ride of the boomer generation I try to finish out this ride as I watch so many dropping by the wayside but so many are still   waiting to just turn the page with no rage. Never regret anything that made you smile even if it only lasted for a very short while and try to remember that your happiness is all up to you. While humanity sleeps in the night all I do is write and my words and my tears have flooded Valley's without a single solitary sound but for me sometimes the Sun shines but the clouds always seem to return so I guess I'll just never learn but I do know that when knowledge speaks wisdom listens.                                      Jon York              2012
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