America....you smokin bitch....

ISNISN Posts: 1,700
edited March 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
the juice in the sluice got loose
the stray cats became gay cats
and then they shot their pa's
wimmin started working
but first they burnt their bras
freud discovered dystrophy
and cancer of the throat
lord mountbatten drowned
and Jeff Buckley in their boats....
men stopped wearing hats
and dark long overcoats
we went all hippy
and got quite lippy
and rock and roll
became so droll
(jus kidding)

the sixties were so special
a formative generation
bob dylan sang his guts out
the sweetheart of the nation
america the new israel
her growing pangs so sore
became the leading figure
and the cause of every war
and every single person
from Kabul to Chaing Mai Town
wants to join the circus
and be a silly clown

oh, forgive me for my freedom
and forgive me for my words
but when ma spoke of JFK
she told me that the birds
were talking to her
and I jus got a little weird inside
America, my favourite place
gee....thanks for the ride.....

A & W root beer's got that tingly taste
A & W root beer's got that tingly taste
that tingly taste
that tingly taste.....
....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
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  • pearlmuttpearlmutt Posts: 392
    ISN -- you rock my world.
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    I have always enjoyed your work ISN.. I don't always comment, but this post is to let you know that you have an admirer of your work.. Keep On Rockin' In The Free World!!!
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • pearlmuttpearlmutt Posts: 392
    For A&W Root Beer, Real Men, and ISN:

    A Brief History of the Mindless Drone

    JC, he wore the black for me.
    And down in Mississippi
    As an enlistee
    And then sometime
    Around 1953

    He got a gun.
    He learned to run.

    After his world went round
    He said, My boys
    Don’t take them guns to town.

    Howard Zinn
    One of the finest men,
    I mean, hell, yeah
    Can I get an A-men?

    Used the GI Bill
    Then taught
    Guns ain’t such a thrill.

    Zen and Zinn --
    Oh, thank the lord
    For real men.
    Just when I thought
    I had lost them again

    In my ear Pirsig said,
    It’s all in your head.
    Korea and Chris,
    I remember the dead.

    And the one I like,
    I mean, really, the most
    Cause his ships are real
    And don’t carry no ghosts

    Is HC Westermann,

    A man with a plan.

    What’s in a name?
    A man without shame.
    A man who knew rightly,
    Knew who to blame.

    His sculptures, you see
    Are like Noah’s fine ark
    Real as can be,
    more bite and less bark.
  • love love love your poem...thanks for sharing!!
    It doesnt hurt.... when I bleed
    but memories...they eat me
    I've seen it all before,...
    bring it on cause I'm no victim.
    -Ghost
  • coleencoleen Posts: 938
    isn - your poems make me want to siiiiiinnnnnnngggggg! :D
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    thank you everyone....glad you liked it....:)
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
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