Ladies and gentlemen:
Like I still voice in the night I recalled a favorite sign off line by a
member of poetryetc, "I think I'll have another bloody pint!" (Don't the
iambic pentameter of it all just thrill ye?)
A possible poetry project--use that line, or a suitable variant thereof, in
a poem. It's like cross-cultural pollenisation, hands across the water and
shit!
Herewith, my entry:
Another Bloody Pint
Dead heat in the lection campaign, oil spills stain the pristine wine-dark
seas big meetin' of national leaders at the U.N. a big nothin' in New York;
Crazed killers on the loose, so hot they had to brownout our juice, and,
agonies of agonistes I aint got no poetical ideas that work!
Ooohooo! What to do? I'm an artist and 'sposed to spout verse and stanza
from my fertile wordwomb;
Like drivin' blind
I can't stay within the lines
Shit!
I think I'll have another bloody pint!
I aint no juicer, wino or alky,
But I don't chew no Red Man tabakky,
Or shoot coke speed or heroin to relax;
PCP just aint mythrill and Ecstacy don't kill my ills
(I know it's vulgar but I just gotta state the facts!)
But a belt now and then gets me together be it weather hot or cold a brew
will sever cares and woes push me to bold creation ever from behind;
Anyway, who gives a fuck? Its somethin' I can't duck;
Yeah!
I think I'll have another bloody pint!
A bloody pint! A bloody pint!
Think it's a sin?
Piss off mate! It aint!
I'll swill stout or malt or lager with all me might!
Be it Olympian elixer
Or homebrewed muscle relaxer
Yo!
I'm gonna have another bloody pint!
Have a Bud? A Schlitz? Or Miller? Making my mind up was such a killer I
mulled seriously as Zeus skipping tothe store;
When I got there, what a pisser! In the coolers and the freezers I could
not find my suds in the size I was looking for!
They had forties, twelves, three-deucers, but not a pint there for the
choosin'--hark! A sixteen ounce, but you gotta buy em by the six!
What a fix! What ho, but wait!
Instead of one I'll get the six,
Stead of a pint
I'll 'ave me 'arf a gallon, mate!
Chris Hayden
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