Stairmaster to Heaven
EvilToasterElf
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Stairmaster to Heaven
“the status quo” my father would often say,
“is exactly as it should be,”
it pulls at us like gravity
the siren song of the remote control
“It should be difficult to be an individual”
he was so fond of pointing out
life is something that was just given out
like slop at a soup kitchen
and so many work to find a bed in their bi-level
“individuality” he belched after his third beer
has to be earned, you didn’t fight to be born,
if anything you fought to stay unborn, we
had to cut your mother open…he would trail off
his favorite metaphor for my birth, my mother’s
only c-section, was popping the hood of their Chrysler
and pulling out the engine
my mother died during child birth
he would only say it when he was drunk
but it always made me cry
I was only becoming immune at the age of 15
Stairmaster to Heaven
“the status quo” my father would often say,
“is exactly as it should be,”
it pulls at us like gravity
the siren song of the remote control
“It should be difficult to be an individual”
he was so fond of pointing out
life is something that was just given out
like slop at a soup kitchen
and so many work to find a bed in their bi-level
“individuality” he belched after his third beer
has to be earned, you didn’t fight to be born,
if anything you fought to stay unborn, we
had to cut your mother open…he would trail off
his favorite metaphor for my birth, my mother’s
only c-section, was popping the hood of their Chrysler
and pulling out the engine
my mother died during child birth
he would only say it when he was drunk
but it always made me cry
I was only becoming immune at the age of 15
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if they love their favourites, then they can ruin the others
I have a high regard for good mothers....
and I think those that aren't with us would probably have been the best ones...
it's difficult not having your own mother....
it's quite confusing for a child
and bewildering......and tragic
God bless good mothers.....everywhere.....
it's a persona poem, my mother is alive and well but thankyou
The title might have been more appropriate were it a light hearted poem.
I write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook. But in the long tresses of your hair--I am a babbling brook.
I'll find another poem to use as an examply, but generally I like using titles that seem almost meaningless until the end of the poem but have a profound meaning when the poem is over, and this poem isn't even close to done yet
I write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook. But in the long tresses of your hair--I am a babbling brook.