Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The Absence of Right Cards
How Does it Feel
Uptown Girl succumbed
to flash-trash?
In Victorian words, seduced
and abandoned.
There are redemption cards,
none pink unfortunately.
Labels: Billy Joel, Dylan, redemption, Rolling Stone
Sunday, August 07, 2016
Will She?
-Wow! Your presence announces!
One moment not there, and then, Whammo!
-I enjoy being paid attention to.
-A fellow at my wife’s office? Snake! Your opposite.You sense
him before he enters. Or slithers.
him before he enters. Or slithers.
-I’ll never be accused of that!
-What a wonderful full, bright laugh! Ballsy even! Gives me hope! Us!
-That’s nice.
-It has been despair here! Crawling! Empty! Despised! Humiliating! Thought it’d never end! But now? With you?
-A possibility.
-Would anything I SAY…?
-Neither for or against makes a bit of difference.
In your favor, all your favors, I have extensively prepared.
-I’ll ...just have to BLURT it out! Will you sing?
-I might.
-Would prayer help?
-It’s all, simply, up to me.
-For what it’s worth, I don’t care for the demeaning label of Fat Lady.
-I have Art; I don’t require revenge.
Labels: awaiting, dire times, Fat Lady sings, opera, patience, redemption
Sunday, April 03, 2016
The Man Who Found Himself
-Oh there you are! Moping about your
certainties? And Beatitudes? Blessed are the...!
-Where’s that garish tramp of yours?
You couldn’t have farmed her out to
ruin the lives of others!
-Vamoosed!
-Good riddance! Depravity!
-Even took that florescent lipstick that had
rolled under the...
-You’re a Moral Disgrace!
-Add Drunk.
-I was going to.
-Check!
-Plus...that financial rigamarole that confused
others, but not me. Just a crook is all!
-Booze haze mostly, but I’m walking it back.
I’ll make whole anyone who...?
-Wouldn’t our Mother be proud!
-I want you to come along again. In her name
I’m keeping off the Grass too! Presently.
-I pray to God he vaporizes you!
-There IS one, then?
-I know that my Redeemer liveth!
-Good thing! Who else could stand the both of us?
Labels: conscience, God, immorality, Libertine, marijuana, moral, prissy, Redeemer, redemption, religious, sex, split personality
