Notes About The Poem
a bit of humor

Gatlinger

I keep on sending tendentious rhymes out
like some demented machine gunner.
Sometimes I aim high, Pulitzer, no doubt!
Lucky to hit a page with a number.
It just doesn't matter I always say.
It's just a form of my daily yoga.
Done without ego each and every day.
In the long run it will surely serve ya.
But still I do unwillingly admit
as I keep my finger on the trigger
that it wouldn't hurt to receive a gift
of thanks from someone's satisfied hunger.
So I just keep gatlinging out my rhymes,
hoping not to do time for all my crimes.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Smith Avatar
August 8, 2011 at 1:56 AM
Zounds! You hit me; I'm wounded. Pow! Got me again. Keep firing, though; I can take it. They're only flesh wounds.
Joel Avatar
August 8, 2011 at 3:20 PM
i like the poem. i like the comment.. y'all gud..
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