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NOT THE TIME....

03-12-2010 at 12:39:26 AM

NOT THE TIME....

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NOW IS NOT THE TIME….

Now is not the time for poetry-
Now is not the time
For speaking with words refined
When my soul is bleeding
And I want to scream obscenities…

Now is not the time
To string pearl necklaces of words in rhyme,
When crushed by the harsh reality
Of the daily struggle to survive.

It’s a cruel and cold world out there
And it’s pulling me down under water,
While I want to scream and swear,
While I struggle to breathe, gasping for air,
The vortex is pulling me deeper still…
And the only way out is a little white pill…

The vultures circle above me in the sky,
Scavengers and predators chase me non-stop-
They want to eat my flesh and drink my blood
And tear me to pieces…
A pack of wolves want to gnaw at my every bone,
And to have a feast with flesh and feces
Until the break of dawn…
Now is not the time for poetry,
But it’s the time to get high
And drink Bacardi- coke to the last drop…

And when I wake up tomorrow around noon
I hope the nightmare would be gone-
Scavengers and predators
And poisonous black snakes-
They can’t scare me no more
Because I know I’ve got what it takes
To fight a battle that will end soon
And Then
Victory will be mine to claim
If I keep my eye on the aim!

March 11 2010
ZND






Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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