~c. P-s: Great society..Wot?
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When you recognize the sheer numbers of government employees cashing paychecks across the board with zero qualifications you must acknowledge the iron boots being installed on us are reaching the millions as we speak, and though, presently, this is mostly figurative speech (kind of like Poetry), for waiving the actual physical torture we are paying an exorbitant price..in terms of liberty, property, and life’s savings, i.e., human dignity, –et cetera, et cetera; this is what we have grudgingly come to accept as the sort of SOFT TOTALITARIANISM lodged in our mists.
~Scruffy O’Well P-s: Your next, pal.
Things I miss not ever doing (with you): Riding with you into the setting sun on a bulldozer, going off the cliff (playing a saxophone naked); watching the sharks, just the two of us and a friendly octopus, sharing sushi fresh off the shell; eating strange meat downtown on noodles, with the chop-sticks..fast; doing secret-agent work for a foreign government, shoot the guns and run and get on the plane; kissing your cherry-red lips backed by the sunset, and the cliff above us going up higher and higher, fast..fast, fast,FAST! Why not? bulldozers are heavy..like, tanks! You’re welcome..like.
~c. P-s: Did I forget anything? Oh yeah! book a couple seats on one of Elon’s space-launches..by the window, get up there and watch the earth-rise..from the moon!!
Your covid breath, when we kiss it’s the kiss of death, oh! nearly forgot to get all the booster’s. Then when we get our middle class 700-dollar gas-relief credit-cards, we shall go on a spending spree..we’ll spay the dog and cook the frog, then we’ll have our lunch and turn on the TV! and the president – or his hag – will explain why we have to get the shots; and then we’ll drop a few fentanyl’s..that explains our lot. We can get jobs working for illegals, yeah, great! in their house – in whatever state – paid for by china that the government gave them, –au pair, that’s us,US! us citizens, us..US! US!! USA! USA! USA! yeah, changing third world diapers for the handicapped. Wash the dishes*, Go! get busted for a white hate-crime. Yes, Dan, we understan’..
~c. * But! do you, unnerstan, Stan..about the lemon-fresh JOY?? I can see myself!
A poet! a poet must do all the heavy lifting in this world, since days be-fore yore, having the task of thrilling hearts of all the girls, no easy chore! (stuck there on the shore, Archimedes..Archimedes, among the bikini’s); ’cause eventually, and probably under a harvest moon, you’ll run into an amazon giantess’s heart of stone, a boulder, that! which refuses to swoon no matter what yarn you may spin her with golden threads and silver trim, toiling, over a milliner’s wheel just so she can have, –her new, adorable hat! (that filthy Fifth Avenue, rr-rat) and at this BEWARE, –you can easily get yourself a poetry hernia trying – affectionately – to lift that cold, cold thing they call a heart, a job that..turns out to be nigh impossible!! (and thankless, too! painting your self in a corner – poetically – with fashionable leftover’s); and so then what’s to do? You must wander, wander, Sire! wan-der, sir poet-knight..all your last deplorable days spent on this desert island they call a planet, wander! wearing a poet-truss..is it any wonder? you don’ wan’ it, you know you don’t! (trus’ me on that). So my advice with that to you, my poet-friend, is this: Write your poor words, if WRITE! you must, scribble down them doggerel’s and stuff, going, “BOW-WOW-WOW!” and stuff ’em in a sack! carry the undiscovered evidence of that aching, sorrowful heart with you to a watery grave in words solitary and brave..unyielding, o! my soul, treading earth’s dry paths with unbent back along the way like a whale and his song, coursing deep in ocean’s streams, there! and there they’ll maybe find your poem someday, perhaps, –under an octopus’s rock; but you won’t be there..happy in heaven, walking erect.
~c. P-s: Now that one wasn’t that so bad, was it..Sweet-heart?
Dear Doctor, You meet the nicest people stretched out on the table doing the emergency-thing, “Scalpel!” Great place to break in new material, too, since you got a captive audience, there..sometimes it’s a hard room to work, though; oh, but I think I figured out why they knock me out before they get started. Anyway that’s all I got, thanks for the support along the way, I certainly wouldn’t trade you guys for all the political tea in China..chow.
Love, the Hilliard-Robertson’s P-s: And avoid direct contact with electricity, that’s this layman’s advice. (Take my poem..PLEASE!)
A poem’s a poem’s a poem,Zzz! and; I think, therefore I’m a poet..don’t ya know it: snows of Kilimanjaro! will fix it, (don’t blow it). But seriously, though, poetry – IF it’s handled right – helps rid us of society’s blight, o! you wondrous art, you!! (and) carries us to a place beyond petty strife to a world of bliss! “..of bliss and rapture, a nobler world” (ditto,&et cetera,etc); and a poem sung, that’s the dizzying heights..Zzz! but a poetry contest won, that’s..that’s The Impossible Dream (so it would seem). Now you! you, for instance, you take THIS poem..PLEASE!! Thank you! thank you veruh much, that’s it, that’s all, I’m off (outta here), set my sails for..Blue Hawaii, –Ow-oo!
~c. P-s: Ow-wooo! the surf-wolf’s of London..Could you pass me a Kleen-ex, please? Zzz!
Hi, dear! My new year’s resolution is write you..one good poem: here I, at the truck-stop, sit (all alone), –Hey! well, so, it’s not the new year YET so I still got time to write you a couple of the other kind you can bet, well, –i can’t recommend gam-bling but! a little rambling’s fine, long as you have to hit the wet, cold highway in a old semi-truck! take along some oils, and paint-brushes, and an easel; and a couple bottles of beer (for luck). You never know when inspiration might..hit you up, –here comes ‘moaning’ Lisa right now, with that, steaming pot-of-coffee in her delicate hand, Wow! to re-fill my cup..soon it’ll be after lunch. Maybe she’ll sit for a pose, (SIGH!) she has such the perfect nose (and she don’t complain much); and all the other truckers agree! she is thee..most phenomenal waitress here at our favorite greasy spoon cafe on the north end of Independence town along the old highway, that gets us, eventually, if we turn eastwards a little, to..Knoxville, Tennessee! see? (Right.) And along the way there’s bound to be loads of snow they’re saying it on the weather-report; already lots coming down in the parking area now, so..Baby do you wanna go? Well hop on up here then, Lisa, darling, oh! and by the way..be a dear and put on the tire-chains for me while I find us something to listen to on the radio, –and crank the heater a little. Thanks, sweetheart! guess that’s all I know; other than fire up that diesel-motor squeak off them air-brakes, and jam’mer in gear! And let’s roll, “HONK! HONK!” yeah..roll on outta here. Yeah!
~c. P-s: Bye, now..stay safe!